His Excellency (1928)

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Released:
1928-03-20

Overview:
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.

Director:
Grigoriy Roshal

Runtime:
0h 58min

Genre:
Drama

  • Cast:
  • 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