His Excellency
20/03/1928
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.
Drama
Movie Information
Leonid Leonidov
as Governor von Wahl / Old Rabbi
Mariya Sinelnikova
as Miriam
Yuliy Untershlak
as Hirsch Lekkert
Tamara Adelheim
as Rivile, Hirsch's wife
Abram Grinfeld
as Lemzer, state rabbi
Mikhail Rostovtsev
as Short Clown
Nikolai Cherkasov
as Tall Clown
Aleksandr Nenyukov
as Pyotr
Mariya Dobrova
as 'Star' of the Circus
Aleksandr Sandel
as Shpis, industrialist
Igor Doronin
as
Mariya Shlenskaya
as Old revolutionary (uncredited)
