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| The Fixer | |
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| Directed by | John Frankenheimer |
| Screenplay by | Dalton Trumbo |
| Based on | The Fixer by Bernard Malamud |
| Produced by | Edward Lewis |
| Starring | Alan Bates Dirk Bogarde Georgia Brown |
| Cinematography | Marcel Grignon |
| Edited by | Henry Berman |
| Music by | Maurice Jarre |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Release date | 8 December 1968 |
| Running time | 132 minutes |
| 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.
Plot
The film is based on Bernard Malamud's novel The Fixer, which in turn was inspired by the 1913 trial of Menahem Mendel Beilis, a Russian Jew who was falsely accused of having ritually murdered a Ukrainian boy named Andriy Yushchynsky, an example of the Blood Libel.
Cast
- Alan Bates as Yakov Shepsovitch Bok
- Dirk Bogarde as Boris Bibikov, investigative magistry
- Georgia Brown as Marfa Golov
- Hugh Griffith as Lebedev
- Elizabeth Hartman as Zinaida
- Ian Holm as I. N. Grubeshov
- David Opatoshu as Latke
- David Warner as Count Odoevsky
- Carol White as Raisl Bok
- George Murcell as Deputy Warden
- Murray Melvin as Priest
- Peter Jeffrey as Berezhinsky
- Michael Goodliffe as Julius Ostrovsky
- Thomas Heathcote as Proshko
- Mike Pratt as Father Anastasy
- Stanley Meadows as Gronfein
- Francis de Wolff as Warden
- David Lodge as Zhitnyak
Oscar nomination
It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Alan Bates).
Spinoza's quotation
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.
External links
References
- Ebert, Roger. "The Fixer Review". Roger Ebert. Retrieved 24 October 2018.
- Baruch Spinoza's A Theologico Political Treatise in Google Books
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