The Fixer (1968 film)
The Fixer | |
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Directed by | John Frankenheimer |
Screenplay by | Dalton Trumbo |
Based on | The Fixer by Bernard Malamud |
Produced by | Edward Lewis |
Starring | |
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[]
References[]
- ^ Ebert, Roger. "The Fixer Review". Roger Ebert. Retrieved 24 October 2018.
Categories:
- English-language films
- British films
- British drama films
- British biographical films
- 1968 films
- Films directed by John Frankenheimer
- Films based on American novels
- Films about antisemitism
- Films with screenplays by Dalton Trumbo
- 1968 drama films
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films
- Films set in 1913
- Films set in Russia
- Films set in Kyiv
- Films shot in Hungary
- 1960s British film stubs