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Jacob the Liar is a tchecoslovaque film of genre Drama directed by Frank Beyer with Vlastimil Brodský
Jacob the Liar (1975)
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Add to a movie listJacob the Liar (German: Jakob der Lügner) is a 1975 East German-Czechoslovakian Holocaust film directed by Frank Beyer and based on the novel of the same name by Jurek Becker. It starred Vlastimil Brodský in the title role.
Work on the picture began in 1965, but production was halted in summer 1966. Becker, who had originally planned Jacob the Liar as a screenplay, decided to make it a novel instead. In 1972, after the book garnered considerable success, work on the picture resumed.
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In a Jewish ghetto in German-occupied Poland, a man named Jakob is summoned to the Gestapo office on a charge he broke the curfew. As the soldier who sent him there merely played a prank on him, he is released, but not before hearing a radio broadcast about the defeats of the German Army. As no one believes he went to the Gestapo and came out alive, Jakob makes up another tale, claiming he owns a radio – a crime punishable by death. He then starts encouraging his friends with false reports about the advance of the Red Army toward their ghetto. The residents, who are desperate and starved, find new hope in Jakob's stories. But it all ends as the Germans deport the people to their death in the extermination camps.Actors
Vlastimil Brodský
(Jakob Heym)
Erwin Geschonneck
(Kowalski)
Henry Hübchen
(Mischa)
Blanche Kommerell
(Rose Frankfurter)
Peter Sturm
(Leonard Schmidt)
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