The Beilis Case
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Directed by
Nikolai Breshko-Breshkovsky,
Starring
Yuriy Yakovlev,
Malkevich-Khodakovskaya,
Stepan Kuznetsov,
Sergei Tsenin
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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.