Una señal de esperanza

Jakob the Liar

“When all hope was lost, he invented it.”

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.

Novela

Jurek Becker

Director

Peter Kassovitz

Music

Edward Shearmur

Screenplay

Didier Decoin

Status

Released

Release date

16/09/1999

Original language

English

Budget

US$ 45 M

Box office

US$ 5 M