Jakob the Liar (1999)

6.7 | Sep 16, 1999 (US) | Comedy, Drama, History | 02:00

based on novel or book jewish ghetto polish resistance jewry hope ss (nazi schutzstaffel) holocaust (shoah) world war ii jewish life radio execution gestapo waterboarding nazi occupation concentration camp survivor hopelessness radio news rumors pow forced labor jews in hiding water torture rumours german occupation of poland nazi train

Budget: 45 000 000 | Revenue: 4 956 701

When all hope was lost, he invented it.

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.