Synopsis
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.
Facts
Setting
Ukraine
Production
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Original language
English
Stills
Festival History
- Academy Awards 1969 academy_award
- Golden Globes (USA) 1969 generic
- National Society of Film Critics Awards 1969 generic
- Valladolid International Film Festival 1969 generic
