The Beilis Case

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

Yuriy Yakovlev Mendel Beilis

Malkevich-Khodakovskaya Vera Chibiryak

Stepan Kuznetsov Investigator Krasovskiy

Aksel Lundin Mysterious citizen

Sergei Tsenin Valka Ryzhiy, the hooligan