The Beilis Case

The Beilis Case (1917) is a drama, crime film directed by Nikolai Breshko-Breshkovsky rated 6.0/10.

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.

Cast

Yuriy Yakovlev

Mendel Beilis

Malkevich-Khodakovskaya

Vera Chibiryak

Stepan Kuznetsov

Investigator Krasovskiy

Aksel Lundin

Mysterious citizen

Sergei Tsenin

Valka Ryzhiy, the hooligan

Pavel Znachkovsky

Secong hooligan

Ivan Kachalov

Lembovetskiy

Mesherskiy

Scheglovitov