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71% Rotten Tomatoes Produced by Edward Lewis Cinematography Marcel Grignon Initial release 8 December 1968 | 7/10 IMDb 2.5/4 Roger Ebert Edited by Henry Berman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Starring Alan BatesDirk BogardeGeorgia Brown Cast Similar Directed by John Frankenheimer, Alan Bates movies, Movies about lawyers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Fixer is a 1968 British drama film based on the 1966 semi-biographical novel of the same name, written by Bernard Malamud. It was directed by John Frankenheimer and stars Alan Bates.
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Plot
It is the story of a man named Yakov Bok, a Jew living in the Russian Empire, who was unjustly imprisoned based on prejudice and the blood libel. It was based on the incidents of the Beilis Trial in 1913, in which Menahem Mendel Beilis was wrongly accused of having murdered a Ukrainian boy named Andrei Yushchinsky, with blood libel being presented as the alleged motivation.
Cast
Oscar nomination
It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Alan Bates).
Spinoza's quotation
The film includes the quotation of a sentence by Baruch Spinoza:
All these questions fall within a man's natural right which he cannot abdicate even with his own consent.: Tractatus_Theologico-Politicus, chapter XX.
