Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 120 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- France, Hungary, United States, Germany
- Violence
- Moderate
The story
In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew. While waiting for the German Kommondant, Jakob overhears a German radio broadcast about Russian troop movements. Returned to the ghetto, the shopkeeper shares his information with a friend and then rumors fly that there is a secret radio within the ghetto.
- based on novel or book
- jewish ghetto
- polish resistance
- jewry
- hope
- ss (nazi schutzstaffel)
- holocaust (shoah)
- world war ii
- jewish life
- radio
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Robin Williams
Jakob Heym
Liev Schreiber
Mischa
Hannah Taylor-Gordon
Lina Kronstein
Alan Arkin
Max Frankfurter
- Michael Jeter — Avron
- Bob Balaban — Kowalsky
- Armin Mueller-Stahl — Prof. Dr. Kirschbaum
- Éva Igó — Lina's Mother
- István Bálint — Lina's Father
- Mark Margolis — Fajngold
- Mathieu Kassovitz — Herschel
- Justus von Dohnányi — Preuss
- Kathleen Gati — Hooker
- Zofia Saretok — Neighbor
- Nina Siemaszko — Rosa Frankfurter
- Directed
- Peter Kassovitz
- Written
- Didier Decoin, Peter Kassovitz
Production
- Rating
- 6.7 / 10 · 412 ratings
- Studio
- Global Medien KG, Columbia Pictures, Blue Wolf, Kasso Productions
If this stayed with you
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