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.
Alan Bates
Yakov Bok
Dirk Bogarde
Bibikov
Georgia Brown
Marfa Golov
Ian Holm
Grubeshov
David Warner
Count Odoevsky
Hugh Griffith
Lebedev
Elizabeth Hartman
Zinaida
Murray Melvin
Priest
