The Beilis Case

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.

Cast

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Yuriy Yakovlev

Mendel Beilis

M

Malkevich-Khodakovskaya

Vera Chibiryak

Stepan Kuznetsov

Investigator Krasovskiy

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Aksel Lundin

Mysterious citizen

Sergei Tsenin