The Fixer

IMDb link: 0062977
IMDb rating: 6.7 (1,582 votes)
Genres: Drama
Director: John Frankenheimer
Cast: Hugh Griffith, Dirk Bogarde, Alan Bates, Georgia Brown and others

Release date: 20 Sep 1969
Release year: 1968
Runtime: 132 minutes
Country: United Kingdom
Keywords: period drama, russia, torture, secularism, anger, justice, class consciousness, higher consciousness, miscarriage of justice, penitentiary

Plot:

Set in Czarist Russia in 1911, and based on the true story of Russian-Jewish peasant Yakov Bok (Sir Alan Bates), who was wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime, the "ritual murder" of a Gentile child in Kiev. 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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