Jakob the Liar (1999)

	Jurek Becker	novel
	Peter Kassovitz	screenplay

Comedy / Drama

In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew...

USA / France / Hungary

120 min

Rated PG-13 for violence and disturbing images.

(3.5 on 5)

Casting:

	Robin Williams	Jakob Heym/Narrator
	Hannah Taylor-Gordon	Lina Kronstein (as Hannah Taylor Gordon)
	Éva Igó	Lina's Mother (as Eva Igo)
	István Bálint	Lina's Father (as Istvan Balint)
	Justus von Dohnanyi	Preuss
	Kathleen Gati	Hooker
	Bob Balaban	Kowalsky
	Alan Arkin	Max Frankfurter
	Michael Jeter	Avron
	Mark Margolis	Fajngold
	János Gosztonyi	Samuel
	Liev Schreiber	Mischa the Prizefighter
	Armin Mueller-Stahl	Dr Kirschbaum aka Professor
	Ádám Rajhona	The Whistler (as Adam Rajhona)
	Antal Leisen	Peg-Leg

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