The Fixer (film)

The Fixer is a 1968 film based on the 1966 semi-biographical novel of the same name, written by Bernard Malamud.
==Plot==
Like the book, the film has for its main character Yakov Bok, a Jew living in the Russian Empire, who was unjustly imprisoned based on prejudice and the charge of having committing 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
==Oscar nomination==
It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Alan Bates).
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Category:Antisemitism
Category:Jewish Russian and Soviet history
Category:Movies