Jakob The Liar [DVD] [DVD] [2000] Robin Williams Rare [Tracked 24 Post]

Jakob The Liar [DVD] [DVD] [2000] Robin Williams Rare [Tracked 24 Post]

Jakob The Liar [DVD] [DVD] [2000] Robin Williams Rare\n\n-- .co.uk ReviewJakob 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. Even the blackest, most therapeutic humour turns queasy in the shadow of such monstrous evil: it's like dancing on a mass grave. Here the eponymous schlemiel plays out his semi-farcical adventures in the mean streets of the Warsaw Ghetto circa 1944. The skies are always leaden over Jakob's hometown, reflecting the comic climate that pervades this mostly unfortunate adaptation of Jurek Becker's autobiographical book (first filmed in 1975). 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. His desperate attempts to convince a clutch of insistently idiosyncratic friends (clichs to a man: Liev Schreiber, Bob Balaban, Michael!

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