The Film
Jakob the Liar
When all hope was lost, he invented it.
The Story
In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew. While waiting for the German Kommondant, Jakob overhears a German radio broadcast about Russian troop movements. Returned to the ghetto, the shopkeeper shares his information with a friend and then rumors fly that there is a secret radio within the ghetto.
german occupation of poland rumours water torture jews in hiding forced labor pow rumors radio news hopelessness concentration camp survivor nazi occupation waterboarding gestapo execution radio jewish life world war ii holocaust (shoah) ss (nazi schutzstaffel) hope jewry polish resistance jewish ghetto based on novel or book
Gallery
The Stills.
