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.
| Directing | John Frankenheimer | Director |
| Writing | Dalton Trumbo | Screenplay |
| Writing | Bernard Malamud | Novel |
| Production | Irene Howard | Casting |
| Production | Enrico Isacco | Associate Producer |
| Art | Béla Zeichan | Art Direction |
| Production | Edward Lewis | Producer |
| Editing | Henry Berman | Editor |
| Sound | Maurice Jarre | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Marcel Grignon | Director of Photography |
| Costume & Make-Up | Dorothy Jeakins | Costume Design |
