The Beilis Case

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

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1917 · Drama · Crime · TMDB 6.0/10

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 — Mendel Beilis
Malkevich-Khodakovskaya — Vera Chibiryak
Stepan Kuznetsov — Investigator Krasovskiy
Aksel Lundin — Mysterious citizen
Sergei Tsenin — Valka Ryzhiy, the hooligan