The Fixer (1968 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 Shepsovitch Bok
• Dirk Bogarde as Boris Bibikov, investigative magistry
• 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

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

Spinoza's quotation

The film includes the quotation of a sentence by Baruch Spinoza:

All these questions fall within a man's natural right which he cannot abdicate even with his own consent.: Tractatus_Theologico-Politicus, chapter XX.^[1]

External links

• The Fixer at the Internet Movie Database

References