Fixaren
Directed by John FrankenheimerSet in Czarist Russia in 1911, and based on the true story of Russian-Jewish peasant Yakov Bok (Sir Alan Bates), who was wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime, the "ritual murder" of a Gentile child in Kiev. 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.
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Fixaren was released on 25 december 1968.
Fixaren was directed by John Frankenheimer.
Fixaren has a runtime of 2h 12m.
Fixaren was produced by Edward Lewis.
Set in Czarist Russia in 1911, and based on the true story of Russian-Jewish peasant Yakov Bok (Sir Alan Bates), who was wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime, the "ritual murder" of a Gentile child in Kiev. 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.
The key characters in Fixaren are Yakov Bok (Alan Bates), Bibikov (Dirk Bogarde), Marfa Golov (Georgia Brown).
Fixaren is rated 15.
Fixaren is a Drama, Kriminal film.
Fixaren has an audience rating of 6 out of 10.