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The Fixer

The Fixer (1968)

Drama | UK

Director: John Frankenheimer

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Rating: 6.8/10

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SYNOPSIS

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.

Actors

Writer: Bernard Malamud, Dalton Trumbo

Producer: Enrico Isacco, Edward Lewis

RUNTIME: 132 min

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