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The Fixer (1968)

The Fixer (1968)

Drama

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

Release Date: 1968, December 8
Directors: John Frankenheimer
Countries: United Kingdom
Production: John Frankenheimer Productions Inc., John Frankenheimer Productions Inc., Edward Lewis Productions, Edward Lewis Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Cast: Ian Holm, David Warner, Hugh Griffith, Michael Goodliffe, Murray Melvin, Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde, Carol White, Elizabeth Hartman, Mike Pratt, Georgia Brown

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.

Keywords:

false accusations injustice jew persecution antisemitism zionism kyiv (kiev), ukraine falsely accused justice jewish ghetto socialism prison rape imperial russia russian secret police