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In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out near curfew. While waiting for the German Kommondant, Jakob overhears a German radio broadcast about Russian troop movements. Returned to the ghetto, the shopkeeper shares his information with a friend and then rumors fly that there is a secret radio within the ghetto. Jakob uses the chance to spread hope throughout the ghetto by continuing to tell favorable tales of information from "his secret radio." Jakob, however, has a real secret in that he is hiding a young Jewish girl who escaped from a camp transport train. A rather uplifting and slightly humorous film about World War II Jewish Ghetto life.
During World War II in Nazi occupied Poland, poor Jewish café owner Jakob (Robin Williams) accidentally overhears a forbidden radio news bulletin signaling Soviet military successes against German forces. To fight the incredible depression and suicide throughout the ghetto, Jakob tells fictitious news bulletins about Allied advances against the Nazis. These lies keep hope and humor alive among the ghetto inhabitants. The Germans learn of the mythical radio, however, and begin a search for the resistance hero who dares operate it.
Robin Williams
Jakob
Hannah Taylor Gordon
Lina
Éva Igó
Lina's Mother
István Bálint
Lina's Father
Justus von Dohnányi
Preuss
Kathleen Gati
Hooker
Bob Balaban
Kowalsky
Alan Arkin
Frankfurter
Michael Jeter
Avron
Mark Margolis
Fajngold
János Gosztonyi
Samuel
Liev Schreiber
Mischa
Armin Mueller-Stahl
Kirschbaum
Ádám Rajhona
The Whistler
Antal Leisen
Peg-Leg
Mathieu Kassovitz
Herschel
Péter Rudolf
Roman
Jan Becker
Young German
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