His Excellency

His Excellency

0h 58m 7.0/10

Overview

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.

Director

Grigoriy Roshal

Top Billed Cast

Leonid Leonidov

Leonid Leonidov

Governor von Wahl / Old Rabbi

Tamara Adelheim

Tamara Adelheim

Rivile, Hirsch's wife

Mikhail Rostovtsev

Mikhail Rostovtsev

Short Clown

Mariya Sinelnikova

Mariya Sinelnikova

Miriam

Abram Grinfeld

Lemzer, state rabbi

Yuliy Untershlak

Yuliy Untershlak

Hirsch Lekkert

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