The Beilis Case (24/04/1917)

Production : Svetoten, "Creo" of M. Bystritsky

Synopsis

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.

Y. Yakovlev

Malkevich-Khodakovskaya

Stepan Kouznetsov

Aksel Lundin