Jakob the Liar (1999)
Directed by Peter Kassovitz
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.
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What critics compared Jakob the Liar to
The cloying wrong-headedness of Roberto Benigni's Life is Beautiful and Robin William's Jakob The Liar, as well-meaning as they were, left audiences with survivor's guilt for sticking with them to the final credits.
The worst Holocaust movies may be those that aim for tragicomic uplift: Life Is Beautiful , Jakob the Liar , or Jerry Lewis’ never-released The Day the Clown Cried .