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.
Type:
MOVIE
Country:
US
Genres:
Drama
Release:
December 1968
Production:
John Frankenheimer Productions Inc., Edward Lewis Productions, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Cast:
Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde, Georgia Brown, Ian Holm, David Warner, Hugh Griffith, Elizabeth Hartman, Murray Melvin, Carol White, Michael Goodliffe, Mike Pratt
Tags:
jewish ghetto, falsely accused, socialism, jew persecution, zionism, antisemitism, false accusations, justice, injustice, imperial russia, kyiv (kiev), ukraine, prison rape, russian secret police
