The Fixer (film)

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The Fixer is a 1968 film based on the 1966 semi-biographical novel by Bernard Malamud about a Jew, Menahem Mendel Beilis, in Tsarist Russia who was unjustly imprisoned and the notorious trial that ensued.

The film stars Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde, Georgia Brown, Hugh Griffith, Elizabeth Hartman, Ian Holm, David Opatoshu and David Warner. It was directed by John Frankenheimer and adapted from Malamud's novel by Dalton Trumbo.

It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Alan Bates).

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