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Alan Bates stars as a peasant who refuses to make a false murder confession in this riveting adaptation of Bernard Malamud's seminal novel about anti-Semitism in Tsarist Russia.

Keywords:

Drama, Based-on-Novel, Movie, Film, Movies, Films, Oscar Best Actor Nominee

Additional Information:

(1968) (3 Star)

Cast:

Alan Bates	.... Yakov Bok
Dirk Bogarde	.... Bibikov
Georgia Brown	.... Marfa Golov
Hugh Griffith	.... Lebedev
Elizabeth Hartman	.... Zinaida
Ian Holm	.... Grubeshov

Supporting Cast:

David Opatoshu	.... Latke
David Warner	.... Count Odoevsky
Carol White	.... Raisl
George Murcell	.... Deputy Warden
Murray Melvin	.... Priest
Peter Jeffrey	.... Berezhinsky
Michael Goodliffe	.... Ostrovsky
Thomas Heathcote	.... Proshko
Mike Pratt	.... Father Anastasy

Directors:

John Frankenheimer

Writers:

Bernard Malamud
Dalton Trumbo