Jakob the liar [videorecording] / Columbia Pictures ; Blue Wolf Productions ; Kasso Inc. ; screenplay by Peter Kassovitz and Didier Decoin ; produced by Marsha Garces Williams and Steven Haft ; directed by Peter Kassovitz.
Robin Williams, Alan Arkin, Bob Balaban, Michael Jeter, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Liev Schreiber. Originally released as a motion picture in 1999. Based on the novel Jakob der Lügner by Jurek Becker.
Summary:
In Nazi-occupied Poland a poor Jewish cafe owner invents fictitious news bulletins about Allied advances against the Nazis. These lies keep hope and humor alive among the ghetto inhabitants.
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