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The Beilis Case (1917)

The Beilis Case (1917)

Drama Crime
Release Date: 1917, April 24
Directors: Nikolai Breshko-Breshkovsky
Countries: Russia
Production: Svetoten, "Creo" of M. Bystritsky, Svetoten, "Creo" of M. Bystritsky
Cast: Yuriy Yakovlev, Sergei Tsenin, Stepan Kuznetsov, Ivan Kachalov, Pavel Znachkovsky, Malkevich-Khodakovskaya, Mesherskiy

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.

Keywords:

based on true story 1910s silent film partially lost film