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Programme Information

Comedy drama with Robin Williams as a Jewish shopkeeper imprisoned in a ghetto in wartime Poland who overhears some interesting news and passes it on. The rumour grows that there is a secret radio and Jakob decides to invent optimistic news in order to cheer up his fellow prisoners

Keywords:

Comedy, Drama, War, Historical, History, Based-on-Novel, World War, Movie, Film, Movies, Films, WWII, Nazi, WW2, World War 2

Additional Information:

(1999) (France / USA / Hungary) (3 Star)

Cast:

Robin Williams	.... Jakob Heym/Narrator
Hannah Taylor-Gordon	.... Lina Kronstein
Éva Igó	.... Lina's Mother
István Bálint	.... Lina's Father
Justus von Dohnanyi	.... Preuss
Kathleen Gati	.... Hooker

Supporting Cast:

Bob Balaban	.... Kowalsky
Alan Arkin	.... Max Frankfurter
Michael Jeter	.... Avron
Mark Margolis	.... Fajngold
János Gosztonyi	.... Samuel
Liev Schreiber	.... Mischa the Prizefighter
Armin Mueller-Stahl	.... Dr. Kirschbaum
Ádám Rajhona	.... The Whistler
Antal Leisen	.... Peg-Leg

Directors:

Peter Kassovitz

Writers:

Jurek Becker
Peter Kassovitz