Release Date | 1999-09-16 |
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Runtime | 120 minutes |
Genres | Comedy, Drama, History |
Stars | Robin Williams, Liev Schreiber, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, Alan Arkin, Michael Jeter |
Directors | Jurek Becker, Didier Decoin, Steven Haft, Marsha Garces Williams, Elemér Ragályi |
In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew. While waiting for the German Kommondant, Jakob overhears a German radio broadcast about Russian troop movements. Returned to the ghetto, the shopkeeper shares his information with a friend and then rumors fly that there is a secret radio within the ghetto.