Released:
1968-12-08

Overview:
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.

Director:
John Frankenheimer

Runtime:
2h 12min

Genre:
Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Alan Bates
  as
  Yakov Bok
• 
  Dirk Bogarde
  as
  Bibikov
• 
  Georgia Brown
  as
  Marfa Golov
• 
  Ian Holm
  as
  Grubeshov
• 
  David Warner
  as
  Count Odoevsky