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 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.

Starring:

Alan Bates, Alfie Bass, Carol White, Danny Green, David Lodge, David Opatoshu, David Warner, Dirk Bogarde, Elizabeth Hartman, Francis De Wolff, George Murcell, Georgia Brown, Hugh Griffith, Ian Holm, Imre Antal, Michael Balfour, Michael Goodliffe, Mike Pratt, Murray Melvin, Peter Jeffrey, Stanley Meadows, Thomas Heathcote, William Hutt

Genre:

Drama