©Columbia Pictures
Feature Film | 1999 | Drama, History, War | France, Hungary, USA
Main data
| Director | Peter Kassovitz |
|---|---|
| Written by | Peter Kassovitz, Didier Decoin, Jurek Becker (literary source) |
| Production | Columbia Pictures [us], Blue Wolf Productions [fr], Global Entertainment Productions GmbH & Company Medien KG, Heritage Films [pl], Kasso Inc. Productions [fr] |
Shooting data
| Locations | Piotrków Trybunalski, Łódź |
|---|
Project data
| Length of movie | 114 min |
|---|
Brief synopsis
In 1944, Jewish shop owner Jakob (Robin Williams) overhears a radio broadcast on the movements of the Soviet army while he is shuttled to Nazi headquarters from the Warsaw, Poland, ghetto where he is imprisoned. Upon his return, he whispers what he's heard to his friend Mischa (Liev Schreiber), and before long the whole ghetto is alive with rumors and hope that the long war will soon end. Determined to keep up their spirits as best he can, Jakob continues to lie with the best of intentions.