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Jakob The Liar
1999
Jakob is a poor Jewish cafe owner in Nazi occupied Poland in 1944. He accidentally hears good news about the war on a radio and spreads this to his depressed friends who have heard no news since 1939. Unfortunately the rumour also spreads that Jakob has a radio and this is an offence punishable by death... Read more
| Starring | Robin Williams, Alan Arkin, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Liev Schreiber |
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| Director | Peter Kassovitz |
| Genres | Drama |
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Jakob The Liar
Jakob is a poor Jewish cafe owner in Nazi occupied Poland in 1944. He accidentally hears good news about the war on a radio and spreads this to his depressed friends who have heard no news since 1939. Unfortunately the rumour also spreads that Jakob has a radio and this is an offence punishable by death...
| Starring | Robin Williams, Alan Arkin, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Liev Schreiber |
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| Director | Peter Kassovitz |
| Studio | UCA |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 55 mins LOVEFiLM Instant: 1 hr 55 mins |
| Certificate |  DVD LOVEFiLM Instant |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English LOVEFiLM Instant: English |
| Dubbed | German |
| Subtitles | DVD: Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish, Turkish |
| Released | Production year: 1999 On LOVEFiLM Instant: LOVEFiLM Instant: 31 Jan 2012 To Rent: DVD: 08 Mar 2004 |
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After Roberto Benigni in the camps, Robin Williams in the ghetto (this was actually shot before Life Is Beautiful).... read more on Time Out
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- 04 Nov 2008 at 00:13
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Fantastic
As always, any movie starring Robin Williams has something special!
This is the story about a Jew in the Ghettos in Poland during the war, who gets ... read more » - 5915
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- Ellie
- Nottingham
- 15 May 2004 at 21:57
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Worth seeing but a bit lost
This film is a bit lost. It deals with a very sensitive issue, the plight of the jews in the ghettos.
At time it's almost a bit slapstick and ... read more » - 1096444
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Well it's no Schindler's List, that's for sure...
Is it a comedy, is it a harrowing tale of oppression or is it a mish-mash of book adaptation which doesn't quite know where it's going or what it's ... read more »
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fantastic film
this film was fantastic! best film that i have watched in a long time. i enjoyed it so much that i bought it!
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Jakob The Liar
Jakob is a poor Jewish cafe owner in Nazi occupied Poland in 1944. He accidentally hears good news about the war on a radio and spreads this to his depressed friends who have heard no news since 1939. Unfortunately the rumour also spreads that Jakob has a radio and this is an offence punishable by ...
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