The story of how the 1975 film “Jacob the Liar” (“Jakob der Lügner”) was made ... So he lies and says that he heard the news on a radio that he has hidden. And he begins inventing ...

In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out near curfew. While waiting for the German Kommondant, Jakob overhears a German radio ...

He claims to have a secret radio. From then on ... At the beginning of the film it is stated that “The story of Jakob the Liar never took place. It certainly didn’t. But yet, maybe it did.” Precisely ...

Williams had a famous love for children, and in Peter Kassovitz’s “Jakob the Liar,” he played ... overhearing a forbidden radio broadcast. The humor in the film, like the joke book, is ...

A Jewish ghetto in the east of Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio broadcast announcing the Soviet Army is making slow by steady progress towards central Europe.