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((About|the 1999 film||Jacob the Liar (disambiguation)))((Infobox film
| name           = Jakob the Liar
| image          = Jakob the liar poster.jpg
| caption        = Theatrical release poster
| director       = [[Peter Kassovitz]]
| producer       = [[Steven Haft]]<br />[[Marsha Garces Williams]]
| based_on       = ((based on|''[[Jacob the Liar]]''|[[Jurek Becker]]))
| screenplay     = Peter Kassovitz<br />[[Didier Decoin]]
| starring       = ((plainlist|
* [[Robin Williams]]
* [[Alan Arkin]]
* [[Bob Balaban]]
* [[Michael Jeter]]
* [[Armin Mueller-Stahl]]
* [[Liev Schreiber]]
))
| music          = [[Edward Shearmur]]
| cinematography = Elemér Ragályi
| editing        = [[Claire Simpson]]
| studio         = [[Columbia Pictures]]<br>Blue Wolf Productions<br>Kasso Inc.
| distributor    = [[Sony Pictures Releasing]]
| released       = ((film date|1999|9|24))
| runtime        = 120 minutes
| country        = United States
| language       = English
| budget         = $45 million
| gross          = $4,956,401 (domestic)<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=jakobtheliar.htm|title=Jakob the Liar (1999) |access-date=2010-01-18 |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] ))</ref>
))
'''''Jakob the Liar''''' is a 1999 American [[war film|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 [[Jacob the Liar|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 [[Ghettos in occupied Europe 1939–1944|ghetto]] in [[Occupation of Poland (1939–1945)|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 ''[[Jacob the Liar (1975 film)|Jakob der Lügner]]''.

==Plot==
In early 1944 Poland, a [[History of the Jews in Poland|Polish-Jewish]] shopkeeper named Jakob Heym is summoned to the German headquarters after being falsely accused of being out after [[curfew]]. While waiting for the commander, Jakob overhears a German radio broadcast speaking about Soviet offensives. Returned to the [[Jewish ghettos established by Nazi Germany|ghetto]], Jakob shares his information with his friend Mischa. Radios are strictly prohibited in Jewish ghettos, punishable with death, but Mischa confides in some folks, and it quickly sparks rumors that Jakob has a secret radio.

After hesitating, Jakob decides to use the opportunity to spread hope throughout the ghetto by continuing to tell the optimistic tales that he has been allegedly hearing on his secret radio. His lies give some hope and humor to the isolated ghetto inhabitants. He also has a real secret; he is hiding a young Jewish girl who escaped from an [[extermination camp]] deportation train.

However, the [[Gestapo]] learns of the mythical radio and begins a search for the resistance hero who dares to operate it. Jakob surrenders himself to the Germans when they demand the person with the radio give himself up or risk hostages being killed. During interrogation, Jakob tells the police commander that he had merely listened to the radio inside the commander's office. He is ordered to announce publicly that his radio and its reports were all lies, so that the ghetto's liquidation would proceed in an orderly fashion. However, when presented to the public, Jakob refuses to tell the truth, and is shot and killed before he can make his own speech.

Jakob says, [[post-mortem]], that all of the ghetto's residents were deported and were never seen again.

==Cast==
* [[Robin Williams]] as Jakob Heym
* [[Alan Arkin]] as Frankfurter
* [[Bob Balaban]] as Kowalsky
* [[Liev Schreiber]] as Mischa
* [[Armin Mueller-Stahl]] as Dr. Kirschbaum
* [[Hannah Taylor-Gordon]] as Lina Kronstein
* [[Mark Margolis]] as Fajngold
* [[Nina Siemaszko]] as Rosa
* [[Michael Jeter]] as Avron

==Production==
''Jakob the Liar'' was filmed in [[Budapest]], [[Hungary]] (the birth city of director Peter Kassovitz), as well as [[Lódz]] and [[Piotrków Trybunalski]], [[Poland]]. While filming in Budapest, Robin Williams made an apperance on ''Friderikusz Show'', the most popular Hungarian television talk show at the time.<ref>((Cite web |url=https://hvg.hu/kultura/20140812_Robin_Williams_magyarul_koszont__video |title=Robin Williams magyarul köszönt és szerette Budapestet |access-date=2024-04-13 |archive-date=2014-08-12</ref>

As in the novel, an alternate ending was made for the film in which, following Jakob's death, the train carrying the Jewish prisoners to the concentration camp is halted by Soviet troops and the occupants released.((cn|date=April 2024))

==Reception==
Produced on a budget of $45 million, the film was released on September 24, 1999. According to [[Box Office Mojo]], it opened in 1,200 theaters and made $2,056,647 in its opening weekend, placing eighth at the box office. The film's total domestic gross was $4,956,401.((cn|date=April 2024))

The film holds a rating of 29% on [[Rotten Tomatoes]], based on 72 reviews, with an average rating of 4.7/10. The site's consensus states: "Any real story is buried by awkward performances and contrived situations."<ref>((Cite web |title=Jakob the Liar |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/jakob_the_liar |access-date=April 24, 2024 |website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]))</ref>

[[Roger Ebert]] of the ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'' gave the film two stars out of four, comparing it to the similarly themed ''[[Life Is Beautiful]]'' by saying, "I prefer ''Life Is Beautiful'', which is clearly a fantasy, to ''Jakob the Liar'', which is just as contrived and manipulative, but pretends it is not." He went on to say about the acting in the film: "Williams is a talented performer who moves me in the right roles, but has a weakness for the wrong ones. The screenplay and direction are lugubrious, as the characters march in their overwritten and often overacted roles toward a foregone conclusion."<ref>((Cite web |url=http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F19990924%2FREVIEWS%2F909240305%2F |title=Roger Ebert's review of "Jakob the Liar" |access-date=2022-07-10 |archive-date=2012-10-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121004194905/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F19990924%2FREVIEWS%2F909240305%2F |url-status=dead ))</ref>

''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'''s [[Todd McCarthy]] also made comparisons with ''Life is Beautiful'' in his review, but he noted that ''Jakob the Liar'' was shot in late 1997, before ''Life is Beautiful'' had premiered in Italy.<ref>((Cite web|url=https://variety.com/1999/film/reviews/jakob-the-liar-1200459127/|title = Jakob the Liar|date = 13 September 1999))</ref>

Williams received a [[Golden Raspberry Award]] nomination for [[Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actor|Worst Actor]] for his performances in ''Jakob the Liar'' and ''[[Bicentennial Man (film)|Bicentennial Man]]'', but lost to [[Adam Sandler]], who was nominated for ''[[Big Daddy (1999 film)|Big Daddy]]''.((cn|date=April 2024))

==See also==
* [[Jacob the Liar|''Jacob the Liar'' (novel)]]
* [[List of Holocaust films]]

==References==
((Reflist))

==External links==
* ((IMDb title|id=0120716|title=Jakob the Liar))
* ((amg movie|180793|Jakob the Liar))
* ((rotten-tomatoes|id=jakob_the_liar|title=Jakob the Liar))

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