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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.
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Cast

Alan Bates
Yakov Bok

Dirk Bogarde
Bibikov

Georgia Brown
Marfa Golov

Ian Holm
Grubeshov

David Warner
Count Odoevsky

Hugh Griffith
Lebedev

Elizabeth Hartman
Zinaida

Murray Melvin
Priest

Carol White
Raisl

Michael Goodliffe
Ostrovsky

Mike Pratt
Father Anastasy
Director

John Frankenheimer
Director
Creator

Dalton Trumbo
Screenplay
Bernard Malamud
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