The Beilis Case
5.5 / 10
0 minutes
1917-04-24
No Language
RU
Actors :
Yuriy Yakovlev, Malkevich-Khodakovskaya, Stepan Kuznetsov, Aksel Lundin, Sergei Tsenin, Pavel Znachkovsky, Ivan Kachalov, Mesherskiy
Description
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.