The Fixer (1968)
They accused him… They beat him… They condemned him… and after all that, they were more afraid of him than ever.
132 min
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.
- Release date
- December 8, 1968
- Country of origin
- United States, United Kingdom
Cast
- Alan Bates as Yakov Bok
- Dirk Bogarde as Bibikov
- Georgia Brown as Marfa Golov
- Hugh Griffith as Lebedev
- Elizabeth Hartman as Zinaida
- Ian Holm as Grubeshov
- David Opatoshu as Latke
- David Warner as Count Odoevsky
- Carol White as Raisl
- George Murcell as Deputy Warden
Crew
- John Frankenheimer · Director
- Bernard Malamud · Writer
- Dalton Trumbo · Writer
- Edward Lewis · Producer
- Maurice Jarre · Composer
- Marcel Grignon · Cinematographer
- Henry Berman · Editor