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Synopsis: Set in tsarist Russia around the turn of the century and based on a true story of a Russian Jewish peasant Yakov Bok 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.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): John Frankenheimer
Production: MGM
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.9
Rotten Tomatoes:
63%
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Year:
1968
132 min
191 Views


"Dorogozhitsky street.

"I ask the impossible

"But if you can help me,

do it quickly.

"Your former tenant, Yakov Bok."

Why do you limp?

I have shoes that are too tight.

I hope you burn in hell.

What do you expect?

I forger.

I have 5 young children

and a mad woman.

That's the kind of help you can

expect your countrymen.

This is a weak man.

And in my eyes, a dead man.

I run a great danger

with my long hair.

You distrust me.

Wanna complain

against aggression?

I do not want to report.

It should shave my head.

This is the law!

This is us

who make the rules.

We'll keep the hole

until you confess,

dirty bloodsucker!

One must compare your footprint

to that found in the small.

The other prison has raised.

But again.

I need shoes.

My feet are bleeding.

The small also bled.

If you want

that you life easier, says.

Go, search it.

Undress!

You've already searched

Undress.

Opens his mouth.

Lean.

Spread.

The tub!

Go ahead, open.

Your friend Bibikov

sent me to say

you should confess.

Excuse me,

but every time, it's the same.

You just

when the director is absent.

Opened!

Please wait

down the hall.

And close the door.

Your appearance betrays

what you have endured.

You will not see any disadvantage

that I dodge the subject.

I need to focus

on another matter.

Time is running out

and I want to help you.

So you also forgive

my ways.

I have nails in my shoes

tear me feet.

You'll get another pair.

Would you like a cigarette?

It would be a waste.

My asthma has returned.

You will excuse me.

How's your boy?

He died.

What can you say to that?

Nothing.

Death has all the answers.

Listen.

I'm back from St. Petersburg.

I asked

Minister of Justice

to drop the charges,

except committing an offense.

And .. What did he say?

My dear Boris Alexandrovich,

it is not so easy.

After 9 months in jail

for murder,

how to charge

for simple offense?

- He should be released.

- I agree with you.

But the case became public

and compromises our prestige.

Confidentially

Tsar believed guilty.

It closely follows the file.

The father's testimony Anastasy

was particularly impressed.

Anastasy father is a fanatic.

It belongs to no religion

nor church.

I know.

Tell the Tsar

that the expert is a charlatan.

Report to His Majesty

Rasputin is a charlatan

- What it is -

and I will do the same

about Anastasy.

In this second decade

twentieth century,

Your Excellency has she

accuse a man

of ritual murder?

I'm not fooled

enough to believe these stories.

Believe me.

Do not harm the Jews

neither in Russia nor in person.

Everything comes from human nature.

Is it in human nature

to accuse an innocent person?

It's possible.

Man, by nature,

is unhappy.

And it is the passion,

not reason, which the guide.

Please ...

We govern men

in governing their passion.

It unites men

unifying their passion.

Hatred predominates love.

It is their hatred between them.

Our reflex is to eliminate

the reason for their hatred.

If farmers hate tsar

- As I fear -

he is little time left to live.

It is best

they kill a Jew.

It is in everyone's interest.

A confession solve everything.

For our salvation ...

and the Jews.

I'm lost.

Finished.

We still have a chance.

Listen to me.

I will not charge you.

The boy spoke

his classmates

illegal trafficking

which perpetuated his mother.

He was killed

by her mother's lover

to avoid talking about it.

And it certainly helped.

I have a witness,

who saw the dead boy

in the bathtub of his mother.

Long before we found the

in the cave.

The blows were inflicted

thereafter ...

when he was already dead.

To incriminate the Jews.

They destroyed

the life of a man.

And a little boy.

Excuse me ...

The attorney knows it

what you have to say?

Grubeshov was ordered to destroy

any evidence that will exonerate.

They want to condemn you.

I want to prove them wrong.

I ask you

to stay confident ...

and patient.

I trust you.

I am patient and kind.

However ...

I do not mean to sound bitter,

but I do not eat in the hand.

Your bitterness

not offend me in any way.

I'm afraid to disappoint you.

How could you?

Who knows?

I must leave you.

I think ...

men sometimes fail.

When trying to accomplish

what they hold dear.

So if you happen to fail ...

involuntarily

of course ...

and at that time,

I'm taken

a terrible fear ...

after all, who could

call it a failure?

Yes, who could?

Indeed.

This is not madness

which messes up the world.

It is the consciousness.

The tub!

Put your shoes.

- My feet ...

- I do not know.

Put your shoes.

It's a trap.

They attract you to shoot you.

There is nobody.

Person.

Is it possible?

Should I try my luck

or regret it later?

Up!

The old Jew that you received

telling us about you.

The only way to save your skin

is to confess the vile plot.

Soup!

I'm not going

the day here.

We need scrap

of your nails.

- Arise.

- I can not.

Look at my feet.

Take him to the infirmary.

We cut his nails there.

Advance!

I can not walk.

Then ramp.

It will give you a lesson, Bok.

Now you know

what little has suffered.

Admit it, if you want morphine.

You're lucky.

The director sends you gifts.

He believes that practicing

Judaism will do you good.

A Bible?

A Christian Bible.

"The centurion,

that was in front of Jesus,

"Seeing that he had expired

so, said:

"Certainly,

this man was the Son of God. "

A poor carpenter.

That must have

tinkering here and there.

The last Jew in the kingdom of David

and the first Christians.

Meanwhile Christian

he hated his Jewish side?

How is this possible?

His whole being was Jewish.

And Christian at the same time.

He did not know hatred.

Baragouines that you?

I just realized ...

Those who hate the Jews

or any other human being ...

hate Jesus.

You can not be anti-Semitic ...

without rejecting Christianity.

It is in the Gospel.

Then?

Nothing. It only reads.

No incantation or prayer?

No Shawl or yarmulke?

Almighty God,

forgives sins

this young Hebrew.

Help him to forgive us

our sins to him.

We forgive you?

I do not forgive anyone.

I beg you to listen.

God appeared to me.

Your troubles will cease

if you accept God.

You must confess your crimes

and repent.

I beseech you,

Yakov Shepsovitch.

You heard me, Lord.

You heard my voice.

Let your name be sanctified.

Open the door.

Guard, open the door.

What's going on?

I received a message

of Heaven.

Tomorrow

six hours after the rooster,

the Jew will recognize

the divinity of Jesus Christ

and confess everything.

Satan!

Mary, protect me.

I focused on the Evil Eye.

Hold it.

Returns it.

My God!

My God! What was he?

I am a man.

I am a man.

Raisl! I love you, Raisl!

Why did you leave me?

I'm lost

in the depths of the universe.

I pray.

Where are you?

I'm going crazy.

Help me, I'm sinking.

God has destroyed

I have no friends, help me.

I'll drown in tears

and slime of this world.

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Dalton Trumbo

James Dalton Trumbo (December 9, 1905 – September 10, 1976) was an American screenwriter and novelist who scripted many award-winning films including Roman Holiday, Exodus, Spartacus, and Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo. One of the Hollywood Ten, he refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947 during the committee's investigation of communist influences in the motion picture industry. He, along with the other members of the Hollywood Ten and hundreds of other industry professionals, was subsequently blacklisted by that industry. His talents as one of the top screenwriters allowed him to continue working clandestinely, producing work under other authors' names or pseudonyms. His uncredited work won two Academy Awards: for Roman Holiday (1953), which was given to a front writer, and for The Brave One (1956) which was awarded to a pseudonym of Trumbo's. When he was given public screen credit for both Exodus and Spartacus in 1960, this marked the beginning of the end of the Hollywood Blacklist for Trumbo and other screenwriters. He finally was given full credit by the Writers' Guild for all his achievements, the work of which encompassed six decades of screenwriting. more…

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