starring Alan Bates Dirk Bogarde with Hugh Griffith
Elizabeth Hartman, Ian Holm David Warner, Carol White
Yakov Bok, a Jew living beyond the pale in pre-revolutionary Russia, decides to leave his small village and seek work in the city of Kiev. Here, leading a precarious existence as a Gentile without identification papers, he finds work as a repair man, a 'fixer'. But soon the savage spectre of anti-semitism seeks him out and Yakov Bok becomes a victim of his time.
Bernard Malamud 's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is brought to the screen in John Frankenheimer 's powerful and moving film.
Screenplay by DALTON TRUMBO based on the novel by BERNARD MALAMUD Produced by EDWARD LEWIS
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