The Beilis Case

The Beilis Case(1917)

04/24/1917 (US)Drama, Crime
5.5

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.

Nikolai Breshko-Breshkovsky

Director

Nikolai Breshko-Breshkovsky

Writer