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Jakob the Liar (1999)
Runtime: 2 hrs
Synopsis: In Nazi-occupied Poland at the height of World War II, impoverished cafe owner Jakob (Williams) keeps hope and humor alive in the Jewish ghetto by reporting fictitious news bulletins about the Allied forces' advances against the Nazis to his fellow prisoners. Meanwhile, the Germans learn... In Nazi-occupied Poland at the height of World War II, impoverished cafe owner Jakob (Williams) keeps hope and humor alive in the Jewish ghetto by reporting fictitious news bulletins about the Allied forces' advances against the Nazis to his fellow prisoners. Meanwhile, the Germans learn of the mythical radio and begin a search for the resistance hero who dares operate it. A remake of the 1974 German film, JAKOB, DER LUGNER. [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Robin Williams, Liev Schreiber, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Alan Arkin, Hannah Gordon
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Jakob the Liar isn't nearly as intolerable as you might expect of a Holocaust fable starring Robin Williams.
Jakob will have audiences wondering why they're sitting through two hours of Holocaust horrors with so little to drive the plot.
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