His Excellency
1928•58m•7.5•Released
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.
Director
Grigoriy Roshal
Writer
Vera Stroyeva, Serafima Roshal
Languages
Russian
Studio
Belgoskino
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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