Set in tsarist Russia around the turn of the century and based on a true story of a Russian Jewish peasant Yakov Bog 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.
Genre: Drama
Stars: Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde, Georgia Brown, Ian Holm, David Warner, Hugh Griffith
Crew: John Frankenheimer (Director), Dalton Trumbo (Screenplay), Bernard Malamud (Novel), Edward Lewis (Producer), Enrico Isacco (Associate Producer), Maurice Jarre (Original Music Composer)
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Studio: John Frankenheimer Productions Inc., Edward Lewis Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Runtime: 132 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Dec 08, 1968
IMDb: 5.2
