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.

Directed by: John Frankenheimer
Written by: Dalton Trumbo
Runtime: 132 minutes
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Tagline: They accused him… They beat him… They condemned him… and after all that, they were more afraid of him than ever.
Cast:
Alan Bates Alan Bates
Yakov Bok 
Dirk Bogarde Dirk Bogarde
Bibikov 
Georgia Brown Georgia Brown
Marfa Golov 
Ian Holm Ian Holm
Grubeshov 
David Warner David Warner
Count Odoevsky 
Hugh Griffith Hugh Griffith
Lebedev 
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