The Fixer (1968)

Directed by

John Frankenheimer

Genre

drama film, biographical film

Country

United Kingdom, United States

Runtime

2h 10m

Rated

16

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 26 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Jewish handyman in Tsarist Russia is wrongly accused of a crime. He endures years in prison as he struggles to survive and maintain his innocence.

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What happens

The Fixer is a 1968 British drama film directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde, Elizabeth Hartman, David Warner and Georgia Brown. It was written by Dalton Trumbo based on Bernard Malamud's 1966 novel The Fixer, which was inspired by the 1913 trial of Menahem Mendel Beilis. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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