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. |
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Ratings: | IMDB: 6.8/10 | |
Released: | September 20, 1969 | |
Runtime: | 132 min | |
Genres: | Drama | |
Countries: | United Kingdom | |
Companies: | John Frankenheimer Productions Inc. Edward Lewis Productions Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | |
Cast: | Dirk Bogarde Alan Bates Georgia Brown | |
Crew: | John Frankenheimer Dalton Trumbo Bernard Malamud | |
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