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Film · 1928

His Excellency

Directed by Grigoriy RoshalLeonid LeonidovMariya SinelnikovaYuliy Untershlak
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20 Mar 1928Released
58mRunning time

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 Leonidov

Leonid Leonidov

Governor von Wahl / Old Rabbi
Mariya Sinelnikova

Mariya Sinelnikova

Miriam
Yuliy Untershlak

Yuliy Untershlak

Hirsch Lekkert
Tamara Adelheim

Tamara Adelheim

Rivile, Hirsch's wife

Abram Grinfeld

Lemzer, state rabbi
Mikhail Rostovtsev

Mikhail Rostovtsev

Short Clown
Nikolai Cherkasov

Nikolai Cherkasov

Tall Clown

Aleksandr Nenyukov

Pyotr

Mariya Dobrova

'Star' of the Circus

Aleksandr Sandel

Shpis, industrialist
Igor Doronin

Igor Doronin
Mariya Shlenskaya

Mariya Shlenskaya

Old revolutionary (uncredited)
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