A Jewish parvenu climbs the social ladder by seducing wealthy women.
Leon's father
Leon's mother
Leon's fiancée
Bertha's mother
Melnikov
Judith, Melnikov's wife
Saul, steward
A Jewish parvenu climbs the social ladder by seducing wealthy women.
1915-08-11
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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.
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