The Beilis Case (1917)
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.
Director: Nikolai Breshko-Breshkovsky
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Yuriy Yakovlev as Mendel Beilis |
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Malkevich-Khodakovskaya as Vera Chibiryak |
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Stepan Kuznetsov as Investigator Krasovskiy |
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Aksel Lundin as Mysterious citizen |
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Sergei Tsenin as Valka Ryzhiy, the hooligan |
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Pavel Znachkovsky as Secong hooligan |
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Ivan Kachalov as Lembovetskiy |
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Mesherskiy as Scheglovitov |
| Directing | Nikolai Breshko-Breshkovsky | Director |
| Writing | Nikolai Breshko-Breshkovsky | Writer |
| Art | M. Mikhaylov | Production Design |
| Art | P. Schetinskiy | Production Design |
