His Excellency

His Excellency (1928)

Drama

This 1928 film features stylized cinematography and actors from the Moscow Art Theater in a fiction story based on the life of Jewish Labor Bund member Hirsch Lekert who attempted to assassinate the Vilna governor in 1902 to avenge the flogging of workers who participated in a May Day rally.

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  • Release Date: 1928-03-20
  • Runtime: 0h 58min
  • Director: Grigoriy Roshal

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Cast

  • Leonid Leonidov

    Governor von Wahl / Old Rabbi

  • Mariya Sinelnikova

    Miriam

  • Yuliy Untershlak

    Hirsch Lekkert

  • Tamara Adelheim

    Rivile, Hirsch's wife

  • Abram Grinfeld

    Lemzer, state rabbi

  • Mikhail Rostovtsev

    Short Clown

  • Nikolai Cherkasov

    Tall Clown

  • Aleksandr Nenyukov

    Pyotr

  • Mariya Dobrova

    'Star' of the Circus

  • Aleksandr Sandel

    Shpis, industrialist

  • Igor Doronin

  • Mariya Shlenskaya

    Old revolutionary (uncredited)

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