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Jakob the Liar (1999)

Jakob the Liar is a 1999 American film directed by Peter Kassovitz and starring Robin Williams, Alan Arkin, Liev Schreiber, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, and Bob Balaban. The movie is set in 1944 in a ghetto in German-occupied Poland during the Holocaust and is based on the book by Jurek Becker about World War II Jewish ghetto life. It is a remake of the East German DEFA film Jakob der Lügner from 1975.

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Director: Peter Kassovitz
Distributor: Columbia Pictures
Release date: September 24, 1999
Running time: 120 min.
Budget: $45 million
Gross: $4,956,401 (domestic)

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