Release Date

08 Dec, 1968

Runtime

02:12: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

They accused him… They beat him… They condemned him… and after all that, they were more afraid of him than ever.

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.

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Actors

Alan Bates

Dirk Bogarde

Georgia Brown

Ian Holm

David Warner

Hugh Griffith

Elizabeth Hartman

Murray Melvin

Carol White

Michael Goodliffe

Mike Pratt

Crew

John Frankenheimer

Dalton Trumbo

Bernard Malamud

Edward Lewis

Enrico Isacco

Maurice Jarre

Henry Berman

Béla Zeichan

Irene Howard

Marcel Grignon

Dorothy Jeakins