The Fixer
– Set in tsarist Russia around the turn of the century and based on a true story of a Russian Jewish p..
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.
01 Oct 1969
English
John Frankenheimer
Bernard Malamud (novel), Dalton Trumbo (screenplay)
Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde, Georgia Brown, Hugh Griffith
Set in tsarist Russia around the turn of the century and based on a true story of a Russian Jewish peasant Yakov Bok 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.
Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 5 nominations.
MGM