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The Fixer (1968)

★ 6.8PG-13130 minDirector: John Frankenheimer

British drama film by John Frankenheimer

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.

Plot summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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What is The Fixer about?
The Fixer (1968) — 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
Is The Fixer based on a true story?
See the production background and source material details on the official Wikipedia article.
Is The Fixer scary?
Content rating: PG-13. See the reviews tab for parental guidance and tone notes.
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