

“They accused him… They beat him… They condemned him… and after all that, they were more afraid of him than ever.”
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
Writers
Dalton Trumbo
Release Date
December 8, 1968
Runtime
2h 12m
Status
Released
Original Language
en
Vote Count
25
John Frankenheimer Productions Inc.
Edward Lewis Productions

