The Fixer (1968)
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John Frankenheimer directed this intense film adaptation of the Bernard Malamud novel. During the days of Czarist Russia, a poor but educated Jew, Yakov Bok (Alan Bates) is abandoned by his wife Raisl (Carol White). Yakov decides to leave his small village and travel to Kiev. Since it is the time of the pogroms, Yakov poses as a gentile and takes a job as a handyman for Lebedev (Hugh Griffith), a drunken anti-Semitic merchant. Yakov rises up the ladder in Lebedev's establishment, and he is
Dec 8, 1968 Wide
Feb 23, 1994
Cast
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Alan Bates
Yakov Bok -
Dirk Bogarde
Bibikov -
Georgia Brown
Marfa Golov -
Hugh Griffith
Lebedev -
Elizabeth Hartman
Zinaida -
Ian Holm
Grubeshov -
David Opatoshu
Latke -
David Warner
Count Odoevsky -
Carol White
Raisl -
George Murcell
Dep.Warden -
Murray Melvin
Priest -
Peter Jeffrey
Berezhinsky -
Michael Goodliffe
Ostrovsky -
Thomas Heathcote
Proshko -
Stanley Meadows
Gronfein -
Francis De Wolff
Warden -
David Lodge
Zhitnyak -
Michael Balfour
Boatman -
Alfie Bass
Potseikin -
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Danny Green
the Giggler -
Mike Pratt
Father Anastasy -
William Hutt
the Czar
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Alan Bates received an Oscar nomination (his only one) for this mediocre version of the famous novel.
Great Alan Bates starrer directed by Frankenheimer.
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Foreign Titles
- The Fixer (1968) (DE)
- The Fixer (1968) (UK)
