The Fixer (film)

The Fixer

Directed by	John Frankenheimer
Produced by	Edward Lewis
Written by	Bernard Malamud (novel) Dalton Trumbo
Starring	Alan Bates Dirk Bogarde Georgia Brown
Music by	Maurice Jarre
Cinematography	Marcel Grignon
Edited by	Henry Berman
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release dates	8 December 1968
Running time	132 min.
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

It is the story of a man named Yakov Bok, a Jew living in the Russian Empire, who was unjustly imprisoned based on prejudice and the 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
Stanley Meadows as Gronfein
Francis de Wolff as Warden
David Lodge as Zhitnyak

Oscar nomination

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

External links

The Fixer at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by John Frankenheimer

The Young Stranger (1957)
The Young Savages (1961)
All Fall Down (1962)
Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Seven Days in May (1964)
The Train (1964)
Seconds (1966)
Grand Prix (1966)
The Fixer (1968)
The Extraordinary Seaman (1969)
The Gypsy Moths (1969)
I Walk the Line (1970)
The Horsemen (1971)
The Iceman Cometh (1973)
Story of a Love Story (1973)
99 and 44/100% Dead (1974)
French Connection II (1975)
Black Sunday (1977)
Prophecy (1979)
The Challenge (1982)
The Holcroft Covenant (1985)
52 Pick-Up (1986)
Dead Bang (1989)
The Fourth War (1990)
Year of the Gun (1991)
Against the Wall (1994)
The Burning Season (1994)
Andersonville (1996)
The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)
George Wallace (1997)
Ronin (1998)
Reindeer Games (2000)
Path to War (2002)

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