The Fixer

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

Plot Summary

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.

5.8 /10

1968

GB

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jewish ghetto

falsely accused

socialism

jew persecution

zionism

anti-semitism

false accusations

justice

injustice

imperial russia

kyiv (kiev), ukraine

prison rape

russian secret police