The Beilis Case

The Beilis Case
1917
★★★☆☆ 5.5/10
📅 Released
🌐 RU
DramaCrime
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.

Cast

Yuriy Yakovlev
Yuriy Yakovlev
Mendel Beilis
Malkevich-Khodakovskaya
Malkevich-Khodakovskaya
Vera Chibiryak
Stepan Kuznetsov
Stepan Kuznetsov
Investigator Krasovskiy
Aksel Lundin
Aksel Lundin
Mysterious citizen
Sergei Tsenin
Sergei Tsenin
Valka Ryzhiy, the hooligan
Pavel Znachkovsky
Pavel Znachkovsky
Secong hooligan

Crew

Director
Nikolai Breshko-Breshkovsky
Writer
Nikolai Breshko-Breshkovsky

Production

Svetoten, "Creo" of M. Bystritsky

Keywords

based on true storysilent film1910spartially lost film