Overview - Jakob the Liar

Date of release

Genres

  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • History

Runtime: 120 minutes

Homepage: Jakob the Liar

Budget

$45,000,000.00

Revenue

$4,956,701.00

Spoken Languages

  • English

Production companies

  • Name: Global Medien KG

    Production country

  • Name: Columbia Pictures

    Production country United States of America

  • Name: Blue Wolf

    Production country

  • Name: Kasso Productions

    Production country France

Overview

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.

Cast

  • Name: Robin Williams

    Character: Jakob Heym

    Popularity: 4.1937

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  • Name: Liev Schreiber

    Character: Mischa

    Popularity: 3.0182

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  • Name: Hannah Taylor-Gordon

    Character: Lina Kronstein

    Popularity: 0.2564

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  • Name: Alan Arkin

    Character: Max Frankfurter

    Popularity: 1.5529

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  • Name: Michael Jeter

    Character: Avron

    Popularity: 1.2994

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  • Name: Bob Balaban

    Character: Kowalsky

    Popularity: 1.2714

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  • Name: Armin Mueller-Stahl

    Character: Prof. Dr. Kirschbaum

    Popularity: 1.0181

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  • Name: Éva Igó

    Character: Lina's Mother

    Popularity: 0.1251

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