Jakob the Liar (1999)
- Directed by
- Marek Brodzki, Peter Kassovitz
- Genre
- drama film, comedy film, war film, comedy drama
- Country
- France, Poland, United States, Hungary
- Runtime
- 2h
- Rated
- PG-13
- Rating
- 6.7 of 10 from 406 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
In a 1944 Polish ghetto, a Jewish shopkeeper invents news from a radio he does not have to give other residents hope. He spreads rumors that appear to be good news about the war's progress.
somberbittersweetheartfeltunderstatedgentletensemelancholichopeful
What happens
Jakob the Liar is a 1999 American Holocaust film directed by Peter Kassovitz, produced by Steven Haft and Marsha Garces Williams. It is written by Kassovitz and Didier Decoin based on the 1969 German novel Jacob the Liar, by Jewish author Jurek Becker. The film stars Robin Williams, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Alan Arkin, Liev Schreiber, Hannah Taylor-Gordon and Bob Balaban. The film is set in 1944 in a ghetto in German-occupied Poland during the Holocaust and tells the story of a Polish-Jewish shopkeeper named Jakob Heym, who attempts to raise the morale inside the ghetto by sharing encouraging rumors that he claims to have heard on a radio. An earlier film based on the novel is the 1975 East German-Czechoslovak film Jakob der Lügner, which also featured Mueller-Stahl. The movie was a critical and commercial failure: it grossed only $4 million against a $45 million budget, and received negative reviews by critics, with many comparing it unfavorably to the similarly themed Italian movie Life Is Beautiful (1997). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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