Jakob the Liar

“When all hope was lost, he invented it.”

In 1944 Poland, a rumor spreads through a Jewish ghetto that someone is hiding a radio. Jakob Heym (Robin Williams), a shopkeeper, has no radio at all, only a scrap of Russian troop news he overheard at German headquarters and passed to a friend. Peter Kassovitz follows Jakob through the crowded streets, and in the end he is still a man with nothing in his hands.