Jacob the Liar
Jakub Ihar, Jakub Luhar
Original title: Jakob der Lügner
Original language: deIMDB: tt0071688
TMDB: 2200
Release date: Friday, 18th April 1975
Adult: No
Duration: 1h 40min
Popularity: 2.409
Rate: 7.1 / 25 votes
Overview: A Jewish ghetto in the east of Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio broadcast announcing the Soviet Army is making slow by steady progress towards central Europe. In order to keep his companion in misfortune, Mischa, from risking his life for a few potatoes, he tells him what he heard and announces that he is in possession of a radio - in the ghetto a crime punishable by death. It doesn't take long for word of Jakob's secret to spread - suddenly, there is new hope and something to live for - and so Jakob finds himself in the uncomforting position of having to come up with more and more stories.
Popularity: 2.409
Rate: 7.1 / 25 votes
Overview: A Jewish ghetto in the east of Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio broadcast announcing the Soviet Army is making slow by steady progress towards central Europe. In order to keep his companion in misfortune, Mischa, from risking his life for a few potatoes, he tells him what he heard and announces that he is in possession of a radio - in the ghetto a crime punishable by death. It doesn't take long for word of Jakob's secret to spread - suddenly, there is new hope and something to live for - and so Jakob finds himself in the uncomforting position of having to come up with more and more stories.
Directors
Frank Beyer
(Director)
(Director)Writers
Jurek Becker
(Novel)
(Novel)Frank Beyer (Screenplay)
(Screenplay)Cast
Vlastimil Brodský
(Jakob Heym)
(Jakob Heym)Erwin Geschonneck
(Kowalski)
(Kowalski)Henry Hübchen
(Mischa)
(Mischa)Blanche Kommerell
(Rose Frankfurter)
(Rose Frankfurter)Manuela Simon (Lina)
(Lina)Zsuzsa Gordon
(Mrs. Frankfurter)
(Mrs. Frankfurter)Armin Mueller-Stahl
(Roman Schlamm)
(Roman Schlamm)Friedrich Richter
(Dr. Kirschbaum)
(Dr. Kirschbaum)Margit Bara
(Josefa)
(Josefa)Reimar Johannes Baur
(Herschel Schlamm)
(Herschel Schlamm)Dezső Garas
(Frankfurter)
(Frankfurter)Hermann Beyer
(Wachhabender)
(Wachhabender)
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