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.

• Nikolai Breshko-BreshkovskyDirector
• Nikolai Breshko-BreshkovskyWriter

• Yuriy YakovlevMendel Beilis
• Malkevich-KhodakovskayaVera Chibiryak
• Stepan KuznetsovInvestigator Krasovskiy
• Aksel LundinMysterious citizen
• Sergei TseninValka Ryzhiy, the hooligan
• Pavel ZnachkovskySecong hooligan
• Ivan KachalovLembovetskiy
• MesherskiyScheglovitov