The Washington Post, September 24th, 1999
WHEN JAKOB Heym (Robin Williams) is called before a Nazi police commandant in 1944 for breaking a curfew, he overhears something that might just change everything. In "Jakob the Liar," Jakob is the resident of an unspecified Jewish ghetto in Poland run by the Germans, where the trains come regularly to transport Jews to extermination camps. When he's caught by an overzealous Nazi sentry for being in the wrong place after 8 at night, Jakob expects death. The fact that it's not yet eight o'clock has no bearing on the subject. As Jakob stands before the commandant, a radio broadcast suddenly com...
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