The Beilis Case (1917)

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.

Genres: Drama, Crime

Stars: Yuriy Yakovlev, Malkevich-Khodakovskaya, Stepan Kuznetsov, Aksel Lundin, Sergei Tsenin