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	Review: Jakob the Liar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Jakob the Liar is an example of this.
		Jakob the Liar becomes the second motion picture in as many years to adopt a less ponderous tone.
		With Jakob the Liar coming in the wake of last year's Patch Adams, one has to wonder whether Williams has committed himself to lending his presence only to movies steeped in nauseating amounts of heavy-handed manipulation.
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	Spirituality & Health: Movie Review: Jakob the Liar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Jakob the Liar has a theme similar to the multiple Academy Award-winning 1998 Life Is Beautiful — how deception sometimes can be used for a good cause.
		Jakob's fanciful renderings of reality lower the suicide rate in the Jewish community, even alleviating the fatalistic feelings of his barber friend Kowalski (Bob Balaban).
		Jakob the Liar celebrates hope as an essential part of the scaffolding of human existence.
	www.spiritualityhealth.com /newsh/items/moviereview/item_1813.html (302 words)

	Jakob the Liar (1999) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Trivia: Armin Mueller-Stahl, who plays Dr. Kirschbaum (the Professor) was also in Jakob, der Lügner (1975) (upon which the 1999 film is based) as Roman Stahm, the brother of the character who was shot.
		Goofs: Anachronisms: One of the supposed SS guards is wearing a field cap with the fl-red-gold insignia of the modern German military, the Bundeswehr.
		In Jakob's final narration, he was trying to instill hope in the viewers just like he did with his people when he falsely said he had the radio.
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	Amazon.co.uk: Jakob The Liar [1999]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Jakob the Liar has a hard road to travel, since--Roberto Benigni's Life is Beautiful aside--milking the Holocaust for laughs is a dangerous game.
		Jakob Heym (Robin Williams in overbearingly earnest mode) gets tangled in a string of self-perpetuating lies about a hidden radio, supposedly broadcasting news that the victorious Red Army is nearing.
		Jakob is a poor Jewish cafe owner in Nazi occupied Poland in 1944.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004T0ZR (474 words)

	Jakob the Liar
		But where Life is Beautiful made all the right moves, Jakob the Liar goes a few steps too far trying to move the audience.
		Jakob (Robin Williams) is a former pancake vendor who now toils by day in a labor camp.
		Comparisons between Jakob the Liar and Life is Beautiful come naturally, and Jakob the Liar always ends up on bottom.
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	Jakob the Liar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This remake of the 1975 German film Jakob der Lügner stars Robin Williams in a dramatic role as a man who uses his active imagination to bring a ray of hope where hope was all but unknown.
		Jakob Heym (Robin Williams) is the owner of a small café during the Nazi occupation of Poland; he has little money and is struggling to keep body and soul alive in the shadow of the Third Reich.
		Jakob the Liar was the first American feature for director Peter Kassovitz; the supporting cast includes Armin Mueller-Stahl, Alan Arkin, Bob Balaban, and Liev Schreiber.
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	Jakob the Liar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Jakob the Liar has an older pedigree, though: it's an English-language remake of a 1974 film from Germany that may well have inspired Life Is Beautiful, and the remake was in the can before the Roberto Benigni film came out.
		Everyone thinks Jakob has a secret radio (which are illegal in the ghetto), and he finds himself adding lies on top of misunderstandings -- he makes up bits of news, always with a positive spin.
		Jakob the Liar is tasteful Holocaust entertainment, which raises the question of whether any story about the Holocaust should be entertaining.
	www.angelfire.com /movies/oc/jakob.html (795 words)

	Jakob the Liar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In 1944 Nazi-occupied Poland, former pancake vendor Jakob Heym accidentally overhears a radio news bulletin suggesting that the Soviet army is successfully advancing on German forces.
		Jakob is tortured for information by being held underwater and beaten bloody.
		Robin Williams is terrific as Jakob, and smart supporting players provide an engaging combination of pathos and comic relief.
	www.pluggedinonline.com /movies/movies/a0000335.cfm (795 words)

	JAKOB, THE LIAR (YEAR): ChildCare Action Project (CAP) Media Analysis Report MAR12099
		When back at what was left of his home, in confidence Jakob muttered his discovery of the encroaching Russians to one of his friends who would not believe Jakob heard the news on the commandant's radio.
		Jakob just could not convince everyone he did not have a radio.
		Just as the Gestapo were efficient in their ways, the producers were most efficient in creating a very touching and moving masterpiece based in breaking of a Commandment by obliterating the wrongness of doing so by burying the wrongness of lying under a story of courage and hope.
	www.capalert.com /capreports/jakobtheliar.htm (770 words)

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		In Nazi-occupied Poland at the height of World War II, impoverished cafe owner Jakob (Williams) keeps hope and humor alive in the Jewish ghetto by reporting fictitious news bulletins about the Allied forces' advances against the Nazis to his fellow prisoners.
		Meanwhile, the Germans learn of the mythical radio and begin a search for the resistance hero who dares operate it.
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	Jakob, der Lügner (1975) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The film Jakob the Liar explores the holocaust in a new light, presenting anti-Semitism in a relatively subtle way without compromising its substance as well as the film's power to move human emotion.
		In the introductory scene where a tower guard tells Jakob to report to Gestapo headquarters for not complying with the curfew, we saw instances where Jakob would have surely been severely punished or even killed but the officers were surprisingly reasonable and just.
		The film started with glimpses of the ghetto and Jakob checking out his sick niece, all these visuals already gives us an idea of the life of the protagonist and the place he lives in.
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	Jakob the Liar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		"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."
		"Jakob the Liar is too closed off to provide sufficient air for its deprecating humor (jokes, such as they are, fall flat), and the relentless struggle by the hapless people to survive is not adequately transmitted."
		"Jakob the Liar is a trial of cliche, strained optimism, and dire quasi-comedy."
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/JakobtheLiar-1093798 (852 words)

	Jakob the Liar (1999): Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		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.
		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.
		The supposedly funny quips and shrugs that fill Jakob the Liar are tepid at best and embarrassingly shticky at worst.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/jakobtheliar (809 words)

	Amazon.com: Jakob the Liar: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In this case is inside the ghetto, where Jacob Heym, a jew prisoner of the Germans accidentally overheard the news of a German radio saying, "troops succeeded in halting the Bolshevist attack 12 miles from Bezenika." He spread the news with the good intention of bringing hope and faith to the abandoned people there.
		The role of "fiction" in the midst of horror so stark it cannot be endured: this is the central premise of Jurek Becker's holocaust novel Jacob the Liar.
		Hence, Jacob becomes a "liar", inventing radio reports of the war coming ever closer to the camp, and with its approach the promise of salvation.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0452281709?v=glance (1559 words)

	Jakob the Liar
		Robin Williams plays Jakob, a Polish Jew who overhears news of a Russian victory while undergoing interrogation by Nazi police.
		Fearing being labeled an SS conspirator, Jakob claims he heard of the battle on a hidden radio.
		The news sparks hope within the Warsaw ghetto, forcing Jakob to continue broadcasting his benevolent lies.
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		Robin Williams stars in this 1999 film version of Jurek Becker's seriocomic novel about a ghetto dweller in Nazi-occupied Poland who lies that he has a forbidden radio tuned to the BBC.
		The broadcasts Jakob "hears" report Soviet troops are just a few kilometers away.
		With liberation seemingly near, Jews in the ghetto acquire new hope, but Jakob (Williams) is terrified when the Germans learn of his imaginary radio and begin a search for it.
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	Jakob the Liar . Tucson Weekly . 10-11-99
		Set in an occupied Polish ghetto in 1944, Jakob is the story of an unremarkable Jewish man (with his self-avowed "greatest achievement in life [being] an apricot latke") who becomes an unwitting, and mostly unwilling, hero to the desperate and increasingly hopeless people of his neighborhood.
		Under the Nazis, Jews were forbidden access to news, and owning a radio was an offense -- like most offenses -- punishable by death.
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		In Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II, poor Jewish cafe owner Jakob Heym (Oscar -winner Robin Williams) accidentally overhears a forbidden radio news bulliten signaling Soviet military successes against German forces.
		To combat the overwhelming depression and suicide that pervades the ghetto, Jakob invents fictitious new bulletins about Allied advances against the Nazis.
		These lies keep hope and humor alive among the ghetto imhabitants-spirits are lifted, hearts are refreshed and optimism is reborn.
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	Jakob the Liar : Mr. Cranky Rates the Movies : Jakob the Liar
		Robin Williams, in what critics around the country who have only seen one movie this year are calling "an Oscar-caliber performance," plays Jakob, a Polish Jew in an occupied Polish town during World War II, who pretends to have a radio that tells him the Nazis are about to be defeated.
		Through humor and the ironies of life, Jakob and his Jewish pals prove that no matter how bad the circumstances, life can be really cool if you just ignore all the bad shit.
		The truth about "Jakob the Liar" vs. "Life is Beautiful" (Notorious)
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	Jakob the Liar. A Hollywood Jesus Visual Movie Review
		To combat the overwhelming depression and suicide that pervades the ghetto, Jakob tells fictitious news bulletins about Allied advances against the Nazis.
		These lies keep hope and humor alive among the ghetto inhabitants-spirits are lifted, hearts are refreshed and hope is reborn.
		A the name Jakob is perfect for a Jewish man who deceives, because the Jacob of Hebrew scriptues was a deciever too.
	www.hollywoodjesus.com /jakob_the_liar.htm (423 words)

	Jakob the Liar
		One day in the German headquarters he hears a radio telling where a battle is going on only a few hundred km away.
		When he relates this to a friend to keep him from doing something stupid, it becomes assumed that Jakob has a hidden radio.
		He is then pressed to tell more news.
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	Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service: `Jakob the Liar'.@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service: `Jakob the Liar'.@ HighBeam Research
		That line gets a workout from Robin Williams in ``Jakob the Liar,'' but it's not always easy to tell if its supposed to get a laugh.
		In fact, Williams' entire performance proves a tricky read as a man whose powerful imagination inspires hope and happiness among his persecuted people in a Nazi-controlled Jewish ghetto in 1944 Poland.
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		Having seen Jakob the Liar on the heels of Patch Adams and What Dreams May Come, I see clearly that Robin Williams is not satisfied with his Oscar: What he's really bucking for is the Nobel Peace Prize.
		So give it to him already, and maybe he'll stop trying to melt our hearts.
	www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/movies/reviews/2047 (214 words)

	JAKOB THE LIAR REVIEWS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		During World War II in Nazi occupied Poland, poor Jewish cafÃ© owner Jakob (Robin Williams) accidentally overhears a forbidden radio news bulletin signaling Soviet military successes against German forces.
		To fight the incredible depression and suicide throughout the ghetto, Jakob tells fictitious news bulletins about Allied advances against the Nazis.
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		Information on items new to the Green Hills Public Library (IL) and other current events.
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