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Jakob, der Lügner

Originaltitel: Jakob der Lügner
  • 1974
  • 12
  • 1 Std. 40 Min.
IMDb-BEWERTUNG
7,1/10
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IHRE BEWERTUNG
Armin Mueller-Stahl and Vlastimil Brodský in Jakob, der Lügner (1974)
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Ein jüdisches Ghetto in Mitteleuropa, 1944. Jakob Heym hört zufällig eine deutsche Radiosendung ab, in der verkündet wird, dass die Sowjetarmee langsam, aber stetig auf Mitteleuropa zusteuer... Alles lesenEin jüdisches Ghetto in Mitteleuropa, 1944. Jakob Heym hört zufällig eine deutsche Radiosendung ab, in der verkündet wird, dass die Sowjetarmee langsam, aber stetig auf Mitteleuropa zusteuert.Ein jüdisches Ghetto in Mitteleuropa, 1944. Jakob Heym hört zufällig eine deutsche Radiosendung ab, in der verkündet wird, dass die Sowjetarmee langsam, aber stetig auf Mitteleuropa zusteuert.

  • Regie
    • Frank Beyer
  • Drehbuch
    • Jurek Becker
    • Frank Beyer
  • Hauptbesetzung
    • Vlastimil Brodský
    • Erwin Geschonneck
    • Henry Hübchen
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    7,1/10
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    • Regie
      • Frank Beyer
    • Drehbuch
      • Jurek Becker
      • Frank Beyer
    • Hauptbesetzung
      • Vlastimil Brodský
      • Erwin Geschonneck
      • Henry Hübchen
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    • Für 1 Oscar nominiert
      • 2 Gewinne & 2 Nominierungen insgesamt

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    Vlastimil Brodský
    Vlastimil Brodský
    • Jakob Heym
    Erwin Geschonneck
    Erwin Geschonneck
    • Kowalski
    Henry Hübchen
    Henry Hübchen
    • Mischa
    Blanche Kommerell
    Blanche Kommerell
    • Rosa Frankfurter
    Manuela Simon
    • Lina
    Dezsö Garas
    • Frankfurter
    Zsuzsa Gordon
    • Mrs. Frankfurter
    Friedrich Richter
    • Dr. Kirschbaum
    Margit Bara
    Margit Bara
    • Josefa
    Reimar J. Baur
    • Herschel Schtamm
    Armin Mueller-Stahl
    Armin Mueller-Stahl
    • Roman Schtamm
    Hermann Beyer
    Hermann Beyer
    • Wachhabender
    Klaus Brasch
    • Najdorf
    Jürgen Hilbrecht
    • Schwocj
    Paul Lewitt
    • Horowitz
    Fritz Links
    • Fajngold
    Edwin Marian
    • Abraham
    Hans-Peter Reinecke
    Hans-Peter Reinecke
    • Soldat vor Latrine
    • Regie
      • Frank Beyer
    • Drehbuch
      • Jurek Becker
      • Frank Beyer
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    gorney001

    Worthy of its awards.

    I think this film was very well done. I was drawn into the plot and characters very quickly. I would reccommend this film to anyone who would enjoy a new outlook on life. I know that is one of the things I got from watching this movie. Jakob was a very charismatic person and I could not wait to find out what would happen to him and his comrades. Though this movie was not very fast paced, there was enough going on that kept me interested during the entire movie.
    7planktonrules

    Very good, though a tad sanitized

    This East German movie is a very unusual movie about the Holocaust because it focuses on life within the ghetto. However, the film seemed a bit sanitized in how the residents looked and how they were treated. Unlike some later films, some of the Jews in this film looked awfully well-fed and conditions didn't seem all that bad. The cattle car where the remaining Jews were placed seemed rather spacious and not all that bad either--even though in reality many died on the cars due to conditions. In addition, some of the German soldiers seemed pretty nice. Perhaps this might have been that the Soviet-dominated East Germans were more willing to talk about their sordid past but were still struggling with fully accepting it. Whatever is the case, this aspect of the film did surprise me a bit.

    Now as for the rest of the film, it was marvelous and provided an odd insight into life in the ghettos. The acting was excellent and the film is very much worth seeing, though not nearly as compelling as THE SHOP ON MAIN STREET, SCHINDLER'S LIST or AU REVOIR LES ENFANTS. I have not seen the recent remake starring Robin Williams, so I can't really compare the two, but my inclination is almost always to go with the originals.

    PS--The English captioning for this film is pretty poor. Instead of directly translating what is said, it's often summarized or even wrong. My knowledge of German isn't too bad, and several times what they said did not correspond at all to the captioning. You can't blame the film makers for this, but the company that released the film.
    davorka46

    Award winning and very interesting

    This movie is a story full of lies that brought more hope to the Jews living in the Ghetto. Jakob was the one being outside after curfew and he had to report to the Police, and after walking into the station he heard some news on the Radio. He thought that it was good news that the Russians were coming closer. He could not m=keep that to himself so he went and told this to one of his friends who was not supposed to say anything. After a short while the whole Ghetto was talking about those news. Jakob saw that everybody was feeling much better so he continued to tell lies about the news. This is a movie that gets better and better as it moves along. It also gives hope to the Jewish people in the Ghetto and Jakob was having good intentions but it just complicated itself more and more.
    9runamokprods

    Both touching and sadly funny, a special film.

    Only a very few films have succeeded in treating the plight of the Jews under the Nazis with a sense of humor, but this is one of them. Sort of an earlier variation on 'Life is Beautiful', but this is far less saccharine, and the humor here is dry and sad, not slapstick and wacky.

    In a Jewish ghetto in 1944, Jacob is brought to the police station for curfew violation. There he hears news on the radio that the Russians are advancing nearer. He uses this hopeful news to stop a fellow ghetto resident from committing sure suicide by trying to steal extra food. But in a moment of foolishness, Jacob claims he heard the news on his own secret radio. Soon the entire town is hounding him for positive news, and the shy quiet Jacob has become an unwanted celebrity and bringer of hope, forcing him into a moral quandary and more lies. The power of this simple fable is enhanced by some very touching flashbacks where we see these now beaten down characters as their lives were just a few years before – full of love, laughter, food to eat, nice homes.

    Vlastimil Brodsky is great as Jacob, even if he's unfortunately dubbed into German. He avoids the traps of sentimentality or self-pity. Right to the end this is an honest and moving tale of trying to retain one's humanity in the face of ever more overwhelming odds. The hard-to- find DVD could have a better image, but the print was apparently in bad shape from ill- storage in East Germany. (This was the only East German film ever nominated for an Oscar)
    8jingvillareal

    The Best East German Film Ever Made

    The Holocaust has been told in many different ways. We have seen the brutality of it in documentaries on cable as well as in a number of contemporary films. The visuals of Aryan supremacy in Leni Reifenstahl's Nazi propaganda films, images of mountains of dead Jews and extremely inhumane conditions in death camps in Schindler's List, serve not merely to drive the film narrative but stir our emotions as well. These images have conditioned us to read such films and documentaries using stereotypes of both the Jews and the Nazi – Jews are good and the Nazi, evil. 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.

    The music is monotonous suggesting the monotony of the protagonists' lives in the ghetto. Shots are limited to medium shots and lots of close-ups making one feel claustrophobic, enveloped, and asphyxiated even. This immensely adds to an atmosphere of hopelessness and despair. Close-ups also give specific information about the character, their feelings, the way they live, the things they've gone thought and their relationships with each other. The personal information provided us makes us develop a sense of closeness with the characters. Midway in the film, we already have a bond with the characters, we already know their real feelings despite the lightness, surrealistic and oftentimes humorous treatment of the scenes.

    It is also quite extraordinary to depict the Nazi they way this film did considering that this is a holocaust film and one of the first East German film to tackle the subject. Unlike in other film where the Nazis are portrayed as unreasonably evil and sadistic, here we are given a glimpse of their humanity. 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. One officer caught him eavesdropping but lets him go, Jakob then wakes up a sleeping head officer to report his misdemeanor yet even with being irritated for being roused awake, he lets Jakob go without a scratch. The tower-guard, proved wrong, lets Jakob go as well. We also saw guards who are not necessarily the perfect Aryan depicted in Riefenstahl films. There was one guard who walks with a limp and another having the runs. There was also a scene where one guard beats up a Jew (Kowalski), then later returns and drops two sticks of cigarettes for Kowalski - an unspoken apology for having beaten up the Jew. A Nazi apologizing to a Jew in a holocaust film! Is that something or what?

    But then, the film doesn't make us hate the Nazi guards or to view them as the villains in the film. Instead we are made to understand the situation and the circumstance is the real enemy here. This is not a movie pitting the Jews against their Nazi guards like the director's own "Naked among Wolves"; this is a film about a people's struggle to maintain their dignity and humanity amidst the hardships they have suffered.

    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. Then in a very short verbal exchange with one of the ghetto's denizen, Jakob gives us a background of his situation, that a guard took his watch from him. The guy he was talking to on the other hand warns him about the curfew to which he answers that without his watch, has no way to tell time. This sequence tells us that first, the guards can take and do take from the Jews anything they want and second, that the people are in constant fear of the guards and dare not disobey any rules lest one wants to be severely punished or killed. It also tells us that in the event that Jakob gets killed, he will be leaving his young and sick niece to care for herself.

    The character's actions and mood also imply of a prevailing state of constant fear - whether that of being killed or seeing someone close to you die a meaningless death.The Jews in the film were waiting for an inevitable annihilation, a fate they have long accepted until Jakob gave them an alternate view of the future because of his news of a possible liberation by the Russians.

    Through out the film, we are still constantly given pieces of Jewish life before the ghetto. Through flashbacks and what the characters say, we are presented concrete glimpses of how their lives of the films protagonists were before the ghetto. We also shown that in the ghetto, former actors, lawyers, businessmen and even people from the church lose their former identities. In the ghetto, they are made to wear the star and made to work and follow rules like everybody else, albeit their former position or affiliation. Everybody suffers, everyone is subjected to the harshness of ghetto life everyday there's no distinction in class, social status, age and/or sex. We see old people doing hard labor, children getting sick and eating mere crumbs or pieces of vegetables. We see the protagonists picking flies out of their soup and making a feast out of minced onion and a slice of bread. Frank Bayer told the story and made us feel what the characters felt using visuals – and very powerful visuals at that.

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      'Jakob der Lügner' is the only DEFA-Film ever nominated for an Academy Award (1976, Winner: Noirs et blancs en couleur).
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      [last lines]

      Lina: Remember the story?

      Jakob Heym: Which one?

      Lina: The sick princess. Is it a true story?

      Jakob Heym: Of course it is.

      Lina: The boys said it is silly.

      Jakob Heym: What is silly?

      Lina: well with cotton balls. She wanted a cotton ball as big as her pillow.

      Jakob Heym: She wanted a cloud. She thought clouds were made of cotton balls.

      Lina: Aren't clouds made of cotton balls?

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      Featured in Ost-Fernsehen: 1952-1989 (1991)

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      • 17. April 1975 (Ostdeutschland)
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      • Tschechoslowakei
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      • Deutsch
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