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Title Jakob der Lügner = Jacob the liar / DEFA Studio für Spielfilme, Gruppe Johannisthal und Fernsehen der DDR ; eine Gemeinschaftsproduktion in Zusammenarbeit mit Filmové studio Barrandov ; Buch, Jurek Becker ; Produktionsleitung, Herbert Ehler ; Regie, Frank Beyer
Published [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2014
©1974

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Description 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 97 min.)
Summary In his bittersweet comedy loaded with human quirks and nuance, Jacob invents news reports to bolster the spirits of the other Jews living in his Polish ghetto under Nazi occupation. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 1977, the story was remade in Hollywood starring Robin Williams in 1999. In a Polish ghetto in 1944, Jacob Heym is summoned to the police station. While there, Jacob overhears on the radio that "the Russians are twenty kilometers from Bezanika." The next day he tells this to a despondent friend who is about to commit suicide, and the news renews his hope in salvation. As no one would believe the true story, Jacob pretends to have a radio; as no one in the ghetto is allowed to have a radio, however, all are eager to hear news from the outside world and constantly ask Jacob for updates on the advance of the Soviets. Jacob creates fictional reports to help alleviate the unbearable hopelessness of those around him; but his lies cannot stop the machinery that brings death to all the ghetto inhabitants
Notes Title from title frames
Cast Vlastimil Brodsky, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Erwin Geschonneck, Henry Hübchen, Blanche Kommerell, Manuela Simon, Margit Bara
Event Originally produced by DEFA Film Library in 1974
Notes In German with English subtitles
Academy Award nomination for best foreign film, 1977
Subject Beyer, Frank, 1932-2006.
SUBJECT Beyer, Frank, 1932-2006. fast (OCoLC)fst00359796
Subject Motion pictures, German.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Drama
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Poland -- Drama
Jewish ghettos -- Poland -- Drama
Jews.
Jewish ghettos.
Motion pictures, German.
SUBJECT Germany -- Drama
Poland -- Drama
Subject Germany.
Poland.
Genre/Form War films.
Feature films.
Drama.
Internet videos.
Feature films.
War films.
Form Streaming video
Author Beyer, Frank, 1932-2006, director.
Brodský, Vlastimil, actor.
Geschonneck, Erwin, 1906-2008, actor.
Johannes Baur, Reimar, actor
Mueller-Stahl, Armin, 1930- actor.
Hübchen, Henry, 1947- actor.
Kommerell, Blanche, actor.
Simon, Manuela, actor.
University of Massachusetts at Amherst. DEFA Film Library.
Other Titles Jacob the liar