The Fixer (1968 film)
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| 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 |
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Release date
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8 December 1968 |
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Running time
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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.
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.
It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Alan Bates).
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.
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