The Fixer (1968) - Drama Movies 132 minutes. . 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 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. jewish ghetto, falsely accused, socialism, jew persecution, zionism, anti-semitism, false accusations, justice, injustice, imperial russia, kyiv (kiev), ukraine, prison rape, russian secret police
The Fixer (1968)
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Released: Dec 08, 1968
Runtime: 132 minutes
: 5.2/10 by 23 users
Crew: John Frankenheimer (Director), Dalton Trumbo (Screenplay), Bernard Malamud (Novel), Irene Howard (Casting), Enrico Isacco (Associate Producer), Edward Lewis (Producer)
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 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.
