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62% Critic Match
The Fixer
“They accused him… They beat him… They condemned him… and after all that, they were more afraid of him than ever.”
6.2 / 10• 1968• 2h 12m•NR• English
Drama
Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Alan Bates
Yakov Bok
Lead
Dirk Bogarde
Bibikov
Georgia Brown
Marfa Golov
Ian Holm
Grubeshov
David Warner
Count Odoevsky
Hugh Griffith
Lebedev
Elizabeth Hartman
Zinaida
Murray Melvin
Priest
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. John Frankenheimer's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
3.0
“Every frame feels alive. The Fixer is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
