The Fixer (1968)

6.2/10 • 132 min • Drama

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 Kyiv. 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

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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