The Beilis Case

The Beilis Case

1917 · ★ 6.0 · Drama, Crime

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 · Written by Nikolai Breshko-Breshkovsky

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