The Beilis Case

Name: The Beilis Case
Director: Nikolai Breshko-Breshkovsky
Genre: Drama, Crime
Released: 1917-04-24
Rating: 5.5
Cast: Yuriy Yakovlev, Malkevich-Khodakovskaya, Stepan Kuznetsov, Aksel Lundin, Sergei Tsenin

Directed by Nikolai Breshko-Breshkovsky

Drama

Crime

191705.5

Overview

Ukrainian silent courtroom drama about the trial on charges of Menachem Mendel Beilis in the ritual murder of 12-year-old Andrey Yushchinsky. Menahem Mendel Beilis was a Ukrainian Jew accused of ritual murder in Kyiv, in the then Russian Empire, in a notorious 1913 trial, known as the Beilis trial or Beilis affair.