MOVIE
His Excellency
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.
Creators
Grigoriy Roshal — Director
Top cast
Leonid LeonidovGovernor von Wahl / Old Rabbi
Mariya SinelnikovaMiriam
Yuliy UntershlakHirsch Lekkert
Tamara AdelheimRivile, Hirsch's wifeAAbram GrinfeldLemzer, state rabbi
Mikhail RostovtsevShort Clown
Nikolai CherkasovTall ClownAAleksandr NenyukovPyotrMMariya Dobrova'Star' of the CircusAAleksandr SandelShpis, industrialistKEEP DISCOVERING
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