The Fixer (film)
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2.5/4 Roger Ebert Director John Frankenheimer Music director Maurice Jarre Duration Country United Kingdom | 7/10 IMDb 71% Rotten Tomatoes Genre Drama Screenplay Dalton Trumbo Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Bernard Malamud , Dalton Trumbo Release date 8 December 1968 Cast Alan Bates (Yakov Bok), Dirk Bogarde (Bibikov), Georgia Brown (Marfa Golov), Ian Holm (Grubeshov), David Warner (Count Odoevsky), Hugh Griffith (Lebedev)Similar movies The Living Daylights , Bezmiar Sprawiedliwosci , Flys and Angels , “May Your Memory Be Love“ - The Story of Ovadia Baruch , Tsar to Lenin Tagline They accused him… They beat him… They condemned him… and after all that, they were more afraid of him than ever. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Based on the acclaimed Bernard Malamud novel of the same name, this drama finds Yakov Bok (Alan Bates), a Jewish handyman, wrongly imprisoned and accused of murder by the Russian Empire. As Bok struggles to deal with life in jail, his unsympathetic captors only make his existence harder as they cruelly press him for a confession to a crime that he did not commit. With nothing but time on his hands, Bok contemplates his existence and tries to come to terms with his bleak situation.
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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.
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.
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
Similar Movies
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962). The Believer (2001). Focus (2001). The Color Purple (1985). Maurice Jarre composed the music for The Fixer and School Ties.
Oscar nomination
It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Alan Bates).
References
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