Um Sinal de Esperança

Título original: Jakob the Liar

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6,5/10

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Robin Williams in Um Sinal de Esperança (1999)

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Jacob, um comerciante judeu polaco, procura, dar ânimo aos seus companheiros de gueto com notícias falsas sobre o avanço dos Aliados através de um rádio que não existe. Porém, os alemães acr... Ler tudoJacob, um comerciante judeu polaco, procura, dar ânimo aos seus companheiros de gueto com notícias falsas sobre o avanço dos Aliados através de um rádio que não existe. Porém, os alemães acreditaram nele e estão decididos a destruí-lo.Jacob, um comerciante judeu polaco, procura, dar ânimo aos seus companheiros de gueto com notícias falsas sobre o avanço dos Aliados através de um rádio que não existe. Porém, os alemães acreditaram nele e estão decididos a destruí-lo.

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Prêmios
- 2 vitórias e 3 indicações no total

Lina's Father
(as Istvan Balint)

Justus von Dohnányi

Preuss

Kathleen Gati

Hooker

Bob Balaban

Kowalsky

Alan Arkin

Frankfurter

Michael Jeter

Avron

Mark Margolis

Fajngold

János Gosztonyi

Samuel
(as Janos Gosztonyi)

Liev Schreiber

Mischa

Armin Mueller-Stahl

Kirschbaum

Ádám Rajhona

The Whistler
(as Adam Rajhona)

Antal Leisen

Peg-Leg

Mathieu Kassovitz

Herschel

Péter Rudolf

Roman
(as Peter Rudolf)

Jan Becker

Young German

Direção
- Peter Kassovitz
Roteiristas
Elenco e equipe completos
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Curiosidades
This movie and its 1974 predecessor were both based on the novel "Jakob der Lügner", written in 1969 by the East German author Jurek Becker. As Jews, Becker and his parents were placed in a Polish Ghetto in 1939. In order to save him from deportation, his parents gave the Germans a false birth date; Becker forgot his real birth date and was never able to discover it later in life. Although he was eventually sent to the concentration camps Ravensbrück and Sachsenhausen, both he and his father survived the war; his mother died of malnutrition after being freed from the camp. His novel "Jakob der Lügner" won the Heinrich-Mann Prize for literature in 1971; Becker died in 1997 of cancer.

Erros de gravação
At the beginning of the film, when Jakob starts chasing the paper, it is clearly light outside, even though it is 7:30 pm in the winter in Poland. Then, 25 minutes later, when Jakob told to go to the police building, it is quite dark. In the winter, the sun would have completely set hours before.

Citações
[first lines]
Jakob Heym: Hitler goes to a fortune-teller and asks, "When will I die?" And the fortune-teller replies, "On a Jewish holiday." Hitler then asks, "How do you know that?" And she replies, "Any day you die will be a Jewish holiday."

Cenas durante ou pós-créditos
Special thanks to the city and peoples of Piotrków, Poland, the city and peoples of Lódz, Poland and the city and peoples of Budapest, Hungary.

Conexões
Featured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: American Beauty/Blue Streak/For Love of the Game (1999)

Trilhas sonoras
Beer Barrel Polka (Roll Out The Barrel)
Written by Lew Brown, Wladimir A. Timm (as Wladimir Timm), Jaromir Vejvoda & Vasek Zeman
Performed by The Andrews Sisters
Courtesy of MCA Records
By Arrangement with Universal Music Special Markets

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Excellent Entertainment

If you are interested in the holocaust, and want to be entertained at the same time, Jakob the Liar is your film. This is not intended to be an historical film. And, to be sure, it isn't.

Just speaking for myself, I wish everyone would educate themselves about this horrible episode in human history. If you have a friend who refuses to watch honest historical films, turn them on to Jakob the Liar. It IS Robin Williams, after all. For sure, this film will encourage them to learn more about the holocaust. Its very entertaining and does give some superficial insight into what the atrocity was all about.

Robin Williams did his best. He did a fine job in this film, and deserves even more credit just for making the attempt. On a scale of 1 to 10, I'd give it an 8.