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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

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