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Dominican Rep. Jakob the Liar
- Original title
- Jakob the Liar
- Year
- 1999
- Running time
- 115 min.
- Country
United States- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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Robin Williams
Alan Arkin
Bob Balaban
Michael Jeter
Armin Mueller-Stahl
Liev Schreiber
Hannah Taylor Gordon- Éva Igó
- Stephan Balint
Justus von Dohnanyi
Kathleen Gati
Mark Margolis- János Gosztonyi
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Drama | Holocaust. Remake
- Awards
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1999: Nominated for Razzie Awards: Worst Actor (Robin Williams)
- Critics' reviews
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"A markedly better picture than Roberto Benigni's far more sentimental Oscar collector."
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"The best thing about Jakob the Liar is that it's not 'Patch Adams at Auschwitz.'"
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"Flat and forced, Jakob the Liar aspires to be a poignant parable about the power of hope but instead uses one of humanity's greatest tragedies for trite melodrama."
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"I prefer 'Life Is Beautiful,' which is clearly a fantasy, to Jakob the Liar, which is just as contrived and manipulative but pretends it is not"
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"I never lost awareness that I was watching actors speaking lines, not real people"
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"A particularly compelling contribution to the impressive and by now enormous collection of Holocaust movies."
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"Pales in comparison to the controversial 'Life Is Beautiful'--a more provocative fiction, if only because it's even less realist"
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