His Excellency

His Excellency (1928)

7.5 58 min Movie
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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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 Abram Grinfeld Lemzer, state rabbi
Mikhail Rostovtsev Mikhail Rostovtsev Short Clown
Nikolai Cherkasov Nikolai Cherkasov Tall Clown
Aleksandr Nenyukov Aleksandr Nenyukov Pyotr
Mariya Dobrova Mariya Dobrova 'Star' of the Circus
Aleksandr Sandel Aleksandr Sandel Shpis, industrialist
Igor Doronin Igor Doronin
Mariya Shlenskaya Mariya Shlenskaya Old revolutionary (uncredited)

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