The Fixer (1968)
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.
Director:
John Frankenheimer
Writer:
Dalton Trumbo
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Alan Bates as Yakov Bok |
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Dirk Bogarde as Bibikov |
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Georgia Brown as Marfa Golov |
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Ian Holm as Grubeshov |
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David Warner as Count Odoevsky |
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Hugh Griffith as Lebedev |
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Elizabeth Hartman as Zinaida |
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Murray Melvin as Priest |
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Carol White as Raisl |
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Michael Goodliffe as Ostrovsky |
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Mike Pratt as Father Anastasy |
| Directing | John Frankenheimer | Director |
| Writing | Dalton Trumbo | Screenplay |
| Writing | Bernard Malamud | Novel |
| Production | Edward Lewis | Producer |
| Production | Enrico Isacco | Associate Producer |
| Sound | Maurice Jarre | Original Music Composer |
| Editing | Henry Berman | Editor |
| Art | Béla Zeichan | Art Direction |
| Production | Irene Howard | Casting |
| Camera | Marcel Grignon | Director of Photography |
| Costume & Make-Up | Dorothy Jeakins | Costume Design |