Video: Jakob The Liar

Herald rating: **

Running time: 114 mins

In stores: Now

Review: Ewan McDonald

You might think that Robin Williams had been to see Life Is Beautiful and thought it was such a cool idea that he'd make a movie about a Polish Jew hauled before the Nazis for breaking curfew.

Through a comedy of errors, he escapes the death trains and returns home with a secret that could change life in the ghetto — if the Nazis don't hear about it.

Actually, Robin saw a 1985 East German film that won the Berlin Festival and copied it before Roberto Benigni's success. Anyway, this didn't rate cinema release here.