The Beilis Case
MovieTitle | Дело Бейлиса |
User score | 5.5 |
Release date | Apr 24, 1917 |
Genre | Drama, Crime |
Director | Nikolai Breshko-Breshkovsky |
Production country | Russia |
Production companies | Svetoten, "Creo" of M. Bystritsky |
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.