The Fixer (1968)
December 8, 1968
Drama
2h 12m
They accused him… They beat him… They condemned him… and after all that, they were more afraid of him than ever.
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.
Cast & Crew
- Director
- John Frankenheimer
- Yakov Bok Alan Bates
- Bibikov Dirk Bogarde
- Marfa Golov Georgia Brown
- Grubeshov Ian Holm
- Count Odoevsky David Warner
- Lebedev Hugh Griffith
- Zinaida Elizabeth Hartman
- Priest Murray Melvin
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Keywords
- jewish ghetto
- falsely accused
- socialism
- jew persecution
- zionism
- anti-semitism
- false accusations
- justice
- injustice
- imperial russia
- kyiv (kiev), ukraine
- prison rape
- russian secret police