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.
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
