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Jakob the Liar

Name: Jakob the Liar
Released: 1999
Duration: 1 h 54 min
Rating: 40

40 Metascore
1999
1 hr 54 mins
Drama, Comedy
PG13

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Robin Williams gives a heartfelt performance in the title role of this poignant tragicomedy. In Nazi-occupied Poland during WWII, a Jewish café owner tries to boost the morale of his neighbors by inventing fictitious news bulletins about Allied advances against their oppressors. Alan Arkin, Bob Balaban, Michael Jeter, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Hannah Taylor Gordon.

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