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Jakob the Liar

1999

In a Polish ghetto in 1944, a Jewish shopkeeper who overhears a scrap of hopeful news invents an imaginary hidden radio, spinning comforting lies about the war's progress to keep his neighbors' hope — and lives — alive. A bittersweet tragicomedy.

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