The Fixer (1968)

  • NR
  • 12/08/1968 (US)
  • Drama
  • 2h 12m

They accused him… They beat him… They condemned him… and after all that, they were more afraid of him than ever.

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.

John Frankenheimer

Director

Dalton Trumbo

Screenplay

Bernard Malamud

Novel

Cast

Alan Bates's headshot

Alan Bates

Yakov Bok
Dirk Bogarde's headshot

Dirk Bogarde

Bibikov
Georgia Brown's headshot

Georgia Brown

Marfa Golov
Ian Holm's headshot

Ian Holm

Grubeshov
David Warner's headshot

David Warner

Count Odoevsky
Hugh Griffith's headshot

Hugh Griffith

Lebedev
Elizabeth Hartman's headshot

Elizabeth Hartman

Zinaida
Murray Melvin's headshot

Murray Melvin

Priest

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