When I was about eight or nine the family had a visit from an ancient relative in Russia and he sat me down and told me about the Dreyfuss case and- which I knew something of already. And then he told me about the Beilis case, enough so that I remembered something of it. And so several years back I decided to look more carefully into the case and see if there was a film there and part of my excitement came about when I had heard that there was a woman in the Bronx, the sole surviving child of Mendel Beilis who himself died in 1934. Now 95 years old, Rhea Beilis remembers everything. She was only four at the time but she certainly got to know her father after the trial and to identify with his suffering. And so I have done a good deal of filming of her. As well as two women whose uncle was one of the five attorneys defending Mendel Beilis, and these two women, in their 80s and 90s, they are so identified with and so fond of this civil rights defender, Zarundy, that they- one of them is writing a book about their uncle and both of them know a great deal about the case.