Jakob the Liar
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Jakob the Liar is a 1999 American war comedy-drama film directed by Peter Kassovitz, produced by Steven Haft and Marsha Garces Williams, and written by Kassovitz and Didier Decoin. The film is based on the book of the same name by Jurek Becker. The film stars Robin Williams, Alan Arkin, Liev Schreiber, Hannah Taylor-Gordon and Bob Balaban. The film is set in 1944 in a ghetto in German-occupied Poland during the Holocaust and tells the story of a Polish-Jewish shopkeeper named Jakob Heym, who attempts to raise the morale inside the ghetto by sharing encouraging rumors that he claims to have heard on a radio. It is a remake of the 1975 East German-Czechoslovak film Jakob der Lügner.
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Directed by | Peter Kassovitz |
Screenplay by | Peter Kassovitz Didier Decoin |
Based on | Jacob the Liar by Jurek Becker |
Produced by | Steven Haft Marsha Garces Williams |
Starring | |
Cinematography | Elemér Ragályi |
Edited by | Claire Simpson |
Music by | Edward Shearmur |
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Distributed by | Sony Pictures Releasing |
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Running time | 120 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $45 million |
Box office | $4,956,401 (domestic)[1] |