The Beilis Case

The Beilis Case (1917)

Дело Бейлиса

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.

Date of release
1917-04-24
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (3)
Genres
Drama, Crime
Director
Nikolai Breshko-Breshkovsky

Casting

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