Jakob the Liar(1999)

movie - first aired/released 1999-09-16 - 120 min - audience 6.7

Comedy, Drama, History

Directed by Peter Kassovitz

In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew. While waiting for the German Kommondant, Jakob overhears a German radio broadcast about Russian troop movements. Returned to the ghetto, the shopkeeper shares his information with a friend and then rumors fly that there is a secret radio within the ghetto.