The Fixer
“They accused him… They beat him… They condemned him… and after all that, they were more afraid of him than ever.”
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.
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Cast
11 people
Alan Bates
Yakov Bok
Known for
The Sum of All Fears
Zorba the Greek
Dirk Bogarde
Bibikov
Known for
A Bridge Too Far
Death in Venice
Georgia Brown
Marfa Golov
Known for
Tales That Witness Madness
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
Ian Holm
Grubeshov
Known for
Ratatouille
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
David Warner
Count Odoevsky
Known for
Titanic
Tron
Hugh Griffith
Lebedev
Known for
Ben-Hur
The Canterbury Tales
Elizabeth Hartman
Zinaida
Known for
The Secret of NIMH
The Beguiled
Murray Melvin
Priest
Known for
Barry Lyndon
The Phantom of the Opera
Carol White
Raisl
Known for
Poor Cow
Carry On Teacher
Michael Goodliffe
Ostrovsky
Known for
Peeping Tom
The Day the Earth Caught Fire
Mike Pratt
Father Anastasy
Known for
Repulsion
The Vault of Horror
John Frankenheimer Director · Dalton Trumbo Screenplay Bernard Malamud Author
United States release December 8, 1968 · Produced in United Kingdom, United States · Production Edward Lewis Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios
Production
John Frankenheimer Productions Inc.
Production
Edward Lewis Productions
Production
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios
Production
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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United Kingdom · United States
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · December 8, 1968
Theatrical
United Kingdom · September 20, 1969
Theatrical
France
June 18, 1969 · Theatrical
Germany
March 13, 1987 · TV
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