The Beilis Case

1917 DramaCrime Directed by Nikolai Breshko-Breshkovsky

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About The Beilis Case

Nikolay Breshko-Breshkovsky wrote and directed this silent courtroom drama. It stages the trial of Menahem Mendel Beilis, a Kyiv Jew charged with the ritual murder of 12-year-old Andrey Yushchinsky. The case was the 1913 Beilis affair in the Russian Empire. Wikidata places the 1917 film in the Ukrainian People's Republic. No English plot beyond that charge is in the sources used here.

Cast & crew

More about The Beilis Case

Wikidata lists no company, cast, cinematographer, or running time. The catalog calls it a Ukrainian silent. A Commons file is attached under the Russian title Процесс Бейлиса.

Themes

  • a ritual-murder charge
  • a courtroom
  • the Beilis affair
  • Beilis
  • Yushchinsky
  • Kyiv
  • ritual murder
  • 1913 trial

Background

The 1913 Kiev trial charged Beilis with ritual murder. This film, dated 1917, returns to that courtroom.

Notes

  • Breshko-Breshkovsky is both writer and director on Wikidata.
  • The catalog identifies the dead child as Andrey Yushchinsky and the defendant as Menachem Mendel Beilis.
  • No verdict is described in the catalog overview.
  • No cast list came back from Wikidata.

Also available

  • Wikimedia Commons (Процесс Бейлиса. (1917).webm)