Durante la seconda guerra mondiale, un comune abitante di un ghetto crea false notizie sulle offensive alleate per infondere speranza per le altre vittime del regime nazista.Durante la seconda guerra mondiale, un comune abitante di un ghetto crea false notizie sulle offensive alleate per infondere speranza per le altre vittime del regime nazista.Durante la seconda guerra mondiale, un comune abitante di un ghetto crea false notizie sulle offensive alleate per infondere speranza per le altre vittime del regime nazista.
- Premi
- 2 vittorie e 3 candidature
- 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)
Trama
Lo sapevi?
- QuizThis 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.
- BlooperAt 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.
- Citazioni
[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."
- Curiosità sui creditiSpecial thanks to the city and peoples of Piotrków, Poland, the city and peoples of Lódz, Poland and the city and peoples of Budapest, Hungary.
- Colonne sonoreBeer 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
I più visti
- How long is Jakob the Liar?Powered by Alexa
Dettagli
Botteghino
- Budget
- 45.000.000 USD (previsto)
- Lordo Stati Uniti e Canada
- 4.956.401 USD
- Fine settimana di apertura Stati Uniti e Canada
- 2.056.647 USD
- 26 set 1999
- Lordo in tutto il mondo
- 4.956.401 USD