Documentary film "The Beilis Case"

National Television and Radio Company of Ukraine, 2014.

The documentary film "The Mendel Beilis Case" is dedicated to the court case known as the "Beilis Case".

The film uses archival videos of Kyiv from the early 20th century, photographs, newspapers, museum exhibits and historical chronicles.

Commented by Candidate of Political Sciences Oleksandr Naiman.

Host — Andriy Dmytruk.

Reference: The Beilis Case is a trial that took place in Kyiv in the fall of 1913 against the Jew Menachem Mendel Beilis, accused of the ritual murder of the Christian boy Andriy Yushchinsky. The trial, fabricated by the tsarist authorities with anti-Semitic and political purposes, caused a wide public outcry and became a symbol of the struggle of the liberal public against the reactionary regime. Beilis was acquitted by the jury.