This article is about the 1999 film. For other uses, see Jacob the Liar (disambiguation).
1999 American film
Jakob the Liar
Theatrical release poster
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
Robin Williams
Alan Arkin
Bob Balaban
Michael Jeter
Armin Mueller-Stahl
Liev Schreiber
Cinematography
Elemér Ragályi
Edited by
Claire Simpson
Music by
Edward Shearmur
Production companies
Columbia Pictures Blue Wolf Productions Kasso Inc.
Distributed by
Sony Pictures Releasing
Release date
September 24, 1999 (1999-09-24)
Running time
120 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$45 million
Box office
$4,956,401 (domestic)[1]
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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