His Excellency

  • Rated 7.5 out of 10
  • Movie
  • 1928
  • 58m
  • 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.

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Director
Grigoriy Roshal
Starring
Leonid Leonidov, Mariya Sinelnikova, Yuliy Untershlak, Tamara Adelheim

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

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