The Fixer
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The Fixer is a 1966 novel by Bernard Malamud which tells the true story of a Jew, Menahem Mendel Beilis, in Tsarist Russia who is unjustly imprisoned, the notorious "Beilis trial" that ensued, and the international uproar that it caused, forcing Russia to back down in the face of world indignation. The book won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1967 and was adapted into a film in 1968 by Dalton Trumbo.
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.
It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Alan Bates).
Disambiguation: The Fixer is also a fiction novel by Jon F. Merz