Jakob The Liar (DVD)

'Hitler asks a fortune teller, when will I die? The fortune teller says: "On a Jewish holiday." "How do you know?" replies he. "ANY DAY you die on, will be a Jewish holiday!"' When I borrowed this, obviously I thought it would be good. But I didn't think it would be this good. I was slightly dubious about Robin Williams in this role. That was silly of me. Very silly. This is all about a man called Jakob who lives in a Jewish ghetto in a Polish town. Everyone is seriously depressed, commiting suicide and all. Jakob was a man who helped keep everyone's morale up a bit, like the joke above. Then, one day, he come to ...

Jakob the Liar make quite an impact on me. There are incidents, some seemingly trivial, throughout the film, that stay in your mind and may even bring a lump to your throat. Robin Wiliams plays Jakob, a Jewish Cafe owner, in Nazi occupied Poland. At the start of the film he is chasing a single newspaper sheet, which is blowing in the wind, so that he can at least get some news of life outside the Ghetto. He gets caught by a Nazi guard and told to report to officer on duty. This is where the real story begins. Jakob overhears a forbidden news bulletinwhich speak of Soviet military victories against the Germans. He spreads the news among his friends and ...

I was actually quite surprised that I enjoyed this film as much as I did. The best film about the Holocaust by far was "Schindler's List", and I don't think that any film will be able to top that one. While this one doesn't come close (and it doesn't try), it is still an entertaining movie. Jakob Heym (Robin Williams) is a man living in one of the many Jewish ghettos of the time. While outside the ghetto, he hears a newscast on the radio which tells him the Russians are about 400 kilometers away from his home there. This starts a chain of events which lead the occupants of the ghetto to believe he has a radio hidden in his apartment, ...