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Jakob the Liar
1999
· Movie
· 120 min
D
MEANRANK
59/100
Every rating
31–76
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 31, highest is Kinopoisk on 76. Critics average 36, everyone else 67.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →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.
Details
- Director
- Peter Kassovitz
- Writers
- Didier Decoin, Peter Kassovitz
- Released
- 16 September 1999
- Country
- France, Hungary, United States, Germany
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 120 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $45.0M
- Box office
- $5.0M
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