The Beilis Case (1917)
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.
Released: Apr 24, 1917
Runtime: 1:47:31 minutes
Stars: Yuriy Yakovlev, Malkevich-Khodakovskaya, Stepan Kuznetsov, Aksel Lundin, Sergei Tsenin, Pavel Znachkovsky
Crew: Nikolai Breshko-Breshkovsky (Director), Nikolai Breshko-Breshkovsky (Writer), M. Mikhaylov (Production Design), P. Schetinskiy (Production Design)
