The Beilis Case (1917)

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.

Directed by

Nikolai Breshko-Breshkovsky

Cast

• Yuriy Yakovlev as Mendel Beilis
• Malkevich-Khodakovskaya as Vera Chibiryak
• Stepan Kuznetsov as Investigator Krasovskiy
• Aksel Lundin as Mysterious citizen
• Sergei Tsenin as Valka Ryzhiy, the hooligan
• Pavel Znachkovsky as Secong hooligan
• Ivan Kachalov as Lembovetskiy
• Mesherskiy as Scheglovitov

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