The Fixer (1968 film)

The Fixer
The Fixer
Directed by	John Frankenheimer
Screenplay by	Dalton Trumbo
Based on	The Fixer; by Bernard Malamud
Produced by	Edward Lewis
Starring	Alan Bates; Dirk Bogarde; Georgia Brown;
Cinematography	Marcel Grignon
Edited by	Henry Berman
Music by	Maurice Jarre
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	8 December 1968
Running time	132 minutes
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.

Plot[]

The film is based on Bernard Malamud's novel The Fixer, which in turn was inspired by the 1913 trial of Menahem Mendel Beilis, a Russian Jew who was falsely accused of having ritually murdered a Ukrainian boy named Andrei Yushchinsky, an example of the Blood Libel.^[1]

Cast[]

Alan Bates as Yakov Shepsovitch Bok
Dirk Bogarde as Boris Bibikov, investigating magistrate
Georgia Brown as Marfa Golov
Hugh Griffith as Lebedev
Elizabeth Hartman as Zinaida
Ian Holm as I. N. Grubeshov
David Opatoshu as Latke
David Warner as Count Odoevsky
Carol White as Raisl Bok
George Murcell as Deputy Warden
Murray Melvin as Priest
Peter Jeffrey as Berezhinsky
Michael Goodliffe as Julius 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[]

Alan Bates was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.

External links[]

The Fixer at IMDb
The Fixer at Rotten Tomatoes

References[]

^ Ebert, Roger. "The Fixer Review". Roger Ebert. Retrieved 24 October 2018.

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[1] Ebert, Roger. "The Fixer Review". Roger Ebert. Retrieved 24 October 2018.

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