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Jakob the Liar

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France, Hungary, United States · 1999
Rated PG-13 · 2h 0m
Director Peter Kassovitz
Starring Robin Williams, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, Éva Igó
Genre Comedy, Drama, History

In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shopkeeper 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.

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Miami Herald by Curtis Morgan

Flat and forced, Jakob the Liar aspires to be a poignant parable about the power of hope but instead uses one of humanity's greatest tragedies for trite melodrama.

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Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan

The latest in what feels like an endless string of movies ... in which the actor's parts have ruinously overdosed on sentimentality and schmaltz at the expense of humor and even sanity.

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Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

I prefer "Life Is Beautiful," which is clearly a fantasy, to Jakob the Liar, which is just as contrived and manipulative but pretends it is not.

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