The Beilis Case(1917)

🎬0 min
📅1917-04-24
🎭Drama, Crime
5.5/10

Overview

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.

Production

Svetoten, "Creo" of M. Bystritsky

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Cast

Yuriy Yakovlev
as Mendel Beilis
Malkevich-Khodakovskaya
as Vera Chibiryak
Stepan Kuznetsov
as Investigator Krasovskiy
Aksel Lundin
as Mysterious citizen
Sergei Tsenin
as Valka Ryzhiy, the hooligan
Pavel Znachkovsky
as Secong hooligan
Ivan Kachalov
as Lembovetskiy
Mesherskiy
as Scheglovitov