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The Fixer is a 1968 British drama film directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde and Georgia Brown.
The Fixer: Directed by John Frankenheimer. With Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde, Georgia Brown, Hugh Griffith. In Czarist Russia, around 1911, a Russian-Jewish handyman, Yakov Bok (Sir Alan Bates), is wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime.
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- Drama
- John Frankenheimer
- 1969-09-20
The Fixer. Roger Ebert December 25, 1968. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. At the very end of "The Fixer," the film's persecuted hero walks up the steps of a courtroom building to receive the public trial he fought so stubbornly for.
A Russian-Jewish handyman is caught up in a wave of anti-Semitism in Czarist Russia when he is accused of a capital crime he did not commit.
- John Frankenheimer, Gyula Kormos
- Alan Bates
Sep 10, 2012 · Blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo adapted Bernard Malamud's heavyweight novel, a tale of injustice set in pre-revolutionary Russia, but despite obvious effort all round this remains one of...
In 1968 Frankenheimer directed The Fixer, which was based on Bernard Malamud’s acclaimed novel. The script was by Dalton Trumbo, and Alan Bates gave an Oscar-nominated performance as a Jewish handyman wrongfully imprisoned in tsarist Russia; Dirk Bogarde was also memorable as a sympathetic magistrate.
The Fixer is a gripping drama set in Tsarist Russia in the early 1900s. It is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Bernard Malamud. The movie revolves around the life of Yakov Bok, a Jewish handyman who moves to Kiev from a small shtetl in western Russia.
