The Fixer (film)
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Directed by | John Frankenheimer |
Produced by | Edward Lewis |
Written by | Bernard Malamud (novel) Dalton Trumbo |
Starring | Alan Bates Dirk Bogarde Georgia Brown |
Music by | Maurice Jarre |
Cinematography | Marcel Grignon |
Edited by | Henry Berman |
Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Release dates
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8 December 1968 |
Running time
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132 min. |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
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
- Alan Bates as Yakov Bok
- Dirk Bogarde as Bibikov
- Georgia Brown as Marfa Golov
- Hugh Griffith as Lebedev
- Elizabeth Hartman as Zinaida
- Ian Holm as Grubeshov
- David Opatoshu as Latke
- David Warner as Count Odoevsky
- Carol White as Raisl
- George Murcell as Deputy Warden
- Murray Melvin as Priest
- Peter Jeffrey as Berezhinsky
- Michael Goodliffe as Ostrovsky
- Thomas Heathcote as Proshko
- Mike Pratt as Father Anastasy
- Stanley Meadows as Gronfein
- Francis de Wolff as Warden
- David Lodge as Zhitnyak
Oscar nomination
It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Alan Bates).
External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). The Fixer at IMDb
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- Screenplays by Dalton Trumbo
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