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The Fixer (1968)
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Release Date:
8 December 1968 (USA) moreTagline:
This is "The Fixer" who didn't know he had courage...until courage was all he had left.Plot:
In Czarist Russia, unjustly jailed Jewish handyman tries to get out. full summary | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Nominated for Oscar. Another 4 nominations moreUser Comments:
a good look at an unfortunately forgotten part of history moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Alan Bates | ... | Yakov Bok |
 | Dirk Bogarde | ... | Bibikov |
 | Georgia Brown | ... | Marfa Golov |
| Hugh Griffith | ... | Lebedev |
| Elizabeth Hartman | ... | Zinaida |
 | Ian Holm | ... | Grubeshov |
| David Opatoshu | ... | Latke |
| David Warner | ... | Count Odoevsky |
| Carol White | ... | Raisl |
| George Murcell | ... | Deputy Warden |
| Murray Melvin | ... | Priest |
| Peter Jeffrey | ... | Berezhinsky |
 | Michael Goodliffe | ... | Ostrovsky |
| Thomas Heathcote | ... | Proshko |
| Mike Pratt | ... | Father Anastasy |
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132 minCountry:
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1.85 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Australia:PG | Canada:PG (Manitoba/Ontario) | USA:PG-13 (re-rating) (1993) | Argentina:13 | Sweden:15 | USA:M (original rating)MOVIEmeter: 
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In His memoirs 'David Lodge' says that 'Jack Gilford' was cut totally from the final print, also Lodge's part was also cut to the bone. moreFAQ
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| Harrowing film, but wonderful performance by Alan Bates | gwen24 |
| Any Plans for a DVD release? | REISMAN74 |
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When people think of anti-Semitism, they usually think of Hitler's Third Reich. But equally as bad was czarist Russia. In "The Fixer", Yakov Bok (Alan Bates) is a Jewish man who leaves the Pale (the area in Eastern Europe to which Jews were relegated) to work for someone. When they discover that he is a Jew, they imprison him on a trumped-up charge. Specifically, government bureaucrat Grubeshov (Ian Holm) believes that Jews are downright untrustworthy.
The movie also shows how Yakov has to hide his background once he leaves the ghetto. In one scene, he is about to have sex with aristocrat Zinaida (Elizabeth Hartman), but he realizes that she will see that he is circumcised, and so he leaves.
We can clearly see how anti-Semitic feelings were alive and well long before Hitler came to power. It's always important to remember these kinds of things.