His Excellency

Grigoriy Roshal
1928-03-20


7
58 min

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.

Cast

Name Character Team
Leonid Leonidov Governor von Wahl / Old Rabbi Unowned
Mariya Sinelnikova Miriam Unowned
Yuliy Untershlak Hirsch Lekkert Unowned
Nikolai Cherkasov Tall Clown Unowned
Tamara Adelheim Rivile Unowned
Mikhail Rostovtsev Short Clown Unowned
Igor Doronin Unowned