Durante la II Guerra Mundial, un habitante normal de un barrio marginal se inventa noticias sobre las ofensivas de los Aliados para dar esperanza a otras víctimas del régimen nazi.Durante la II Guerra Mundial, un habitante normal de un barrio marginal se inventa noticias sobre las ofensivas de los Aliados para dar esperanza a otras víctimas del régimen nazi.Durante la II Guerra Mundial, un habitante normal de un barrio marginal se inventa noticias sobre las ofensivas de los Aliados para dar esperanza a otras víctimas del régimen nazi.
- Premios
- 2 premios y 3 nominaciones
- Lina's Mother
- (as Eva Igo)
- Lina's Father
- (as Istvan Balint)
- Samuel
- (as Janos Gosztonyi)
- The Whistler
- (as Adam Rajhona)
- Roman
- (as Peter Rudolf)
Argumento
¿Sabías que...?
- CuriosidadesThis movie and its 1974 predecessor were both based on the novel "Jakob der Lügner", written in 1969 by the East German author Jurek Becker. As Jews, Becker and his parents were placed in a Polish Ghetto in 1939. In order to save him from deportation, his parents gave the Germans a false birth date; Becker forgot his real birth date and was never able to discover it later in life. Although he was eventually sent to the concentration camps Ravensbrück and Sachsenhausen, both he and his father survived the war; his mother died of malnutrition after being freed from the camp. His novel "Jakob der Lügner" won the Heinrich-Mann Prize for literature in 1971; Becker died in 1997 of cancer.
- PifiasAt the beginning of the film, when Jakob starts chasing the paper, it is clearly light outside, even though it is 7:30 pm in the winter in Poland. Then, 25 minutes later, when Jakob told to go to the police building, it is quite dark. In the winter, the sun would have completely set hours before.
- Citas
[first lines]
Jakob Heym: Hitler goes to a fortune-teller and asks, "When will I die?" And the fortune-teller replies, "On a Jewish holiday." Hitler then asks, "How do you know that?" And she replies, "Any day you die will be a Jewish holiday."
- Créditos adicionalesSpecial thanks to the city and peoples of Piotrków, Poland, the city and peoples of Lódz, Poland and the city and peoples of Budapest, Hungary.
- Banda sonoraBeer Barrel Polka (Roll Out The Barrel)
Written by Lew Brown, Wladimir A. Timm (as Wladimir Timm), Jaromir Vejvoda & Vasek Zeman
Performed by The Andrews Sisters
Courtesy of MCA Records
By Arrangement with Universal Music Special Markets
Just speaking for myself, I wish everyone would educate themselves about this horrible episode in human history. If you have a friend who refuses to watch honest historical films, turn them on to Jakob the Liar. It IS Robin Williams, after all. For sure, this film will encourage them to learn more about the holocaust. Its very entertaining and does give some superficial insight into what the atrocity was all about.
Robin Williams did his best. He did a fine job in this film, and deserves even more credit just for making the attempt. On a scale of 1 to 10, I'd give it an 8.
- SampsonBlack
- 26 oct 2004
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- Títulos en diferentes países
- Il·lusions d'un mentider
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Taquilla
- Presupuesto
- 45.000.000 US$ (estimación)
- Recaudación en Estados Unidos y Canadá
- 4.956.401 US$
- Fin de semana de estreno en EE. UU. y Canadá
- 2.056.647 US$
- 26 sept 1999
- Recaudación en todo el mundo
- 4.956.401 US$