Reel Number: 221086-05
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1924
Country: Russia,USSR
Location: Leningrad
TC Begins: 12:33:24
TC Ends: 12:38:29
Duration: 00:05:05
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Trial of Bandits, 1924 Exterior Leningrad courthouse w/ guard - last day of trial of 43 bandits & spies. Truck carrying first group of prisoners & armed guards through gate. Prisoners w/ belongings in courtyard then taken into building, one on crutches. Second group of important prisoners arrive. 12:36:20 Show Trial in progress - bandits in dock - man giving evidence - people from Christian villages where bandits operated. After 15 hours of trial, 9 prisoners sentenced to death. Russia / USSR. Criminals. 1920s.