Jakob the Liar (1999)

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Written by Jurek Becker, Peter Kassovitz

Directed by Peter Kassovitz

Running Time: 135 minutes (approx)

Production Year: 1999

Rating: 12 Certificate

Production Country: France/USA/Hungary

Filmed in Colour

Comedy drama with Robin Williams as a Jewish shopkeeper imprisoned in a ghetto in wartime Poland who overhears some interesting news and passes it on. The rumour grows that there is a secret radio and Jakob decides to invent optimistic news in order to cheer up his fellow prisoners

Cast

Image for Robin WilliamsRobin WilliamsJakob Heym/Narrator
Hannah Taylor-GordonLina Kronstein
Éva IgóLina's Mother
István BálintLina's Father
Justus von DohnanyiPreuss
Kathleen GatiHooker
Bob BalabanKowalsky
Alan ArkinMax Frankfurter
Michael JeterAvron
Mark MargolisFajngold
János GosztonyiSamuel
Liev SchreiberMischa the Prizefighter
Armin Mueller-StahlDr. Kirschbaum
Ádám RajhonaThe Whistler
Antal LeisenPeg-Leg

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