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Film / 1928
His Excellency
Directed by
Grigoriy Roshal
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.
The story
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.
Cast
Leonid LeonidovGovernor von Wahl / Old Rabbi
Mariya SinelnikovaMiriam
Yuliy UntershlakHirsch Lekkert
Tamara AdelheimRivile, Hirsch's wife
Abram GrinfeldLemzer, state rabbi
Mikhail RostovtsevShort Clown
Nikolai CherkasovTall Clown
Aleksandr NenyukovPyotr
Mariya Dobrova'Star' of the Circus
Aleksandr SandelShpis, industrialist
Igor Doronin
Mariya ShlenskayaOld revolutionary (uncredited)
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