They accused him… They beat him… They condemned him… and after all that, they were more afraid of him than ever.
December 8, 1968
2h 12m
EN
John Frankenheimer
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 Kyiv. 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.
Alan Bates
Yakov Bok
Dirk Bogarde
Bibikov
Georgia Brown
Marfa Golov
Ian Holm
Grubeshov
Dalton Trumbo, Bernard Malamud
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David Warner
Count Odoevsky
Hugh Griffith
Lebedev
Elizabeth Hartman
Zinaida
Murray Melvin
Priest
Carol White
Raisl
Michael Goodliffe
Ostrovsky
John Frankenheimer Productions Inc.
US
Edward Lewis Productions
US
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios
GB
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
US
