Réalisation:
Peter KassovitzPhotographie:
Elemér RagályiMusique:
Edward ShearmurActeurs·trices:
Robin Williams, Hannah Taylor-Gordon, Bob Balaban, Alan Arkin, Michael Jeter, Mark Margolis, Liev Schreiber, Armin Mueller-Stahl (plus)Résumés(1)
Durant la seconde guerre mondiale, dans un ghetto de Varsovie, Jakob entend par hasard à la radio de la Kommandantur que les Allemands reculent devant les Soviétiques. La nouvelle se répand très vite, et l'espoir renaît. Jakob est alors contraint d'inventer chaque jour de fausses informations pour maintenir le moral de ses compagnons d'infortune. (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment FR)
(plus)Critiques (2)
Almost 25 years after Frank Beyer's version with Vlastimil Brodský, Peter Kassovitz took over the text by Jurek Becker and Robin Williams assumed the lead role. His Jakob the Liar is an unfortunate character somewhere in a Polish ghetto in 1944 who, by chance, gets the opportunity to become the most important man around for a few precious moments. Through the initially innocent misinformation about the news at the front, Jakob becomes the leader of the entire ghetto and the center of the hopes of all the individuals who die alongside him. Robin Williams also took on the role of producer, giving audiences a contrasting substance to the more mass-market film with a similar message to Robert Benigni's Life is Beautiful (1997), which had reigned just prior.
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Mainly because of Robin Williams, because he simply knows how to handle a similar film. The story itself is not bad, but you somehow feel that this is just repetition. Yes, the Second World War was a terrible suffering and this story is presented humanly, but "The Book Thief" got to me much more, while the theme and concept were similar.
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