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
as Yakov Bok
Dirk Bogarde
as Bibikov
Georgia Brown
as Marfa Golov
Ian Holm
as Grubeshov
David Warner
as Count Odoevsky
Hugh Griffith
as Lebedev
Elizabeth Hartman
as Zinaida
Murray Melvin
as Priest
Carol White
as Raisl
Michael Goodliffe
as Ostrovsky
Mike Pratt
as Father Anastasy
