The Fixer (1968)
Overview
Set in tsarist Russia around the turn of the century and based on a true story of a Russian Jewish peasant Yakov Bog who was wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime - the “ritual murder” of a Gentile child in Kiev. We witness the unrelenting detail of the peasant handyman's life in prison and see him gain in dignity as the efforts to humiliate him and make him confess fail.
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Additional Info
| Budget | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $0.00 |
| Original Language | en |
| Popularity | 0.813 |
Directed By
John Frankenheimer
Crew
John Frankenheimer
Bernard Malamud
Dalton Trumbo
Henry Berman
Maurice Jarre
Irene Howard
Edward Lewis
Enrico Isacco
Béla Zeichan
Marcel Grignon
Dorothy Jeakins
TOP CAST
Alan Bates
Yakov Bok
Dirk Bogarde
Bibikov
Georgia Brown
Marfa Golov
Ian Holm
Grubeshov
David Warner
Count Odoevsky
Hugh Griffith
Lebedev
Elizabeth Hartman
Zinaida
Murray Melvin
Priest
Carol White
Raisl
Michael Goodliffe
Ostrovsky
Mike Pratt
Father Anastasy
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