The Fixer (1968)In Czarist Russia, around 1911, a Russian-Jewish handyman, Yakov Bog, is wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime. Director:John Frankenheimer |
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The Fixer (1968)In Czarist Russia, around 1911, a Russian-Jewish handyman, Yakov Bog, is wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime. Director:John Frankenheimer |
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Yakov Bok
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| Dirk Bogarde | ... |
Bibikov
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Georgia Brown | ... |
Marfa Golov
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| Hugh Griffith | ... |
Lebedev
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| Elizabeth Hartman | ... |
Zinaida
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| Ian Holm | ... |
Grubeshov
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David Opatoshu | ... |
Latke
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| David Warner | ... |
Count Odoevsky
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Carol White | ... |
Raisl
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George Murcell | ... |
Deputy Warden
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| Murray Melvin | ... |
Priest
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Peter Jeffrey | ... |
Berezhinsky
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| Michael Goodliffe | ... |
Ostrovsky
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Thomas Heathcote | ... |
Proshko
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Mike Pratt | ... |
Father Anastasy
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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. Written by alfiehitchie
I came home from work after working a 24 hour shift and turned on the TV to find something mindless to numb my brain (ready to do the same thing tomorrow), and turned on this film, I had to watch it to the end. The story is simple enough, its the tale of someone who is wrongly accused of a crime in order to satisfy someones higher political manifesto but there's an ageless quality to it. I'm not particularly clued up on films or politics, and certainly not a critic but I have to say that in these times of arrest without trial or evidence, this film strikes a chord. This film highlights some of the best and worst aspects inherent to human nature, a truly remarkable work.