

The Fixer
1968-12-08 · 132 min · ★ 6.2
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 Kyiv. 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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- Directors
- John Frankenheimer
- Production companies
- John Frankenheimer Productions Inc., Edward Lewis Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Countries
- United States of America
- Status
- Released
Top Cast
Alan BatesYakov Bok
Dirk BogardeBibikov
Georgia BrownMarfa Golov
Ian HolmGrubeshov
David WarnerCount Odoevsky
Hugh GriffithLebedev
Elizabeth HartmanZinaida
Murray MelvinPriest
Carol WhiteRaisl
Michael GoodliffeOstrovsky
Mike PrattFather AnastasyTitle information and images are supplied by TMDb. Explore our discovery guide for advice on comparing metadata and legal viewing options.
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