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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.
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Cast
Leonid LeonidovGovernor von Wahl / Old Rabbi
Mariya SinelnikovaMiriam
Yuliy UntershlakHirsch Lekkert
Tamara AdelheimRivile, Hirsch's wife- Abram GrinfeldLemzer, state rabbi
Mikhail RostovtsevShort Clown
Nikolai CherkasovTall Clown- Aleksandr NenyukovPyotr
- Mariya Dobrova'Star' of the Circus
- Aleksandr SandelShpis, industrialist
Igor Doronin
Mariya ShlenskayaOld revolutionary (uncredited)
Details
- Director
- Grigoriy Roshal
- Writers
- Vera Stroyeva, Serafima Roshal
- Release date
- March 20, 1928
- Runtime
- 58m
- Original language
- Russian
- Studios
- Belgoskino
