剧情介绍
In Czarist Russia, around 1911, a Russian-Jewish handyman, Yakov Bok, is wrongly imprisoned for a most unlikely crime.
Set in tsarist Russia around the turn of the century and based on a true story of a Russian Jewish peasant Yakov Bok 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.
剧本和台词略显大而空,经常会从主演嘴里蹦出一些蛮有哲理的话,可是并没有增加电影的表现力。有一些配角的塑造不算成功,比如Bibikov拼死帮助Yakov的动机是什么。不过主演们的表演都很棒,特别是迷人的Alan Bates,很成功的塑造了一个从无信仰到誓死捍卫清白的犹太人。
台词蛮哲理,拍摄风格较老土,总体水平对不起卡司。Roger Ebert两分半的“电影表现力不够,只靠说教来表达主题”的点评还是蛮贴切。
even in a place with the tightest sensorship, there is the leak for justice.