The Beilis Case

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

Yuriy Yakovlev

as Mendel Beilis

Malkevich-Khodakovskaya

as Vera Chibiryak

Stepan Kuznetsov

as Investigator Krasovskiy

Aksel Lundin

as Mysterious citizen

Sergei Tsenin

as Valka Ryzhiy, the hooligan

Pavel Znachkovsky

as Secong hooligan

Ivan Kachalov

as Lembovetskiy

Mesherskiy

as Scheglovitov

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