1 real historical location · Poland
Robin Williams in a rare dramatic role as a Jewish man in the Lodz Ghetto who claims to own a secret radio and uses fictional broadcasts of Allied victories to keep hope alive among his fellow prisoners. Based on Jurek Becker's novel, itself rooted in his childhood in the ghetto.
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Jakob, a Jewish man in the ghetto, claims to have heard a Soviet radio broadcast — and the rumour of imminent liberation spreads desperate hope through a pop...
The Łódź Ghetto was the second-largest in occupied Poland, holding over 200,000 people at its peak. Established in 1940, it was one of the last ghettos liquidated — in August 1944, the remaining 70,000 inhabitants wer...
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