His Excellency (1928)
1928 · 0h 58m · Drama
Genres: 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.
Director: Grigoriy Roshal
Writers: Vera Stroyeva, Serafima Roshal
Cinematography: Nikolay Kozlovsky
Editor: Mark Donskoy
Cast
Leonid Leonidov as Governor von Wahl / Old RabbiMariya Sinelnikova as MiriamYuliy Untershlak as Hirsch LekkertTamara Adelheim as Rivile, Hirsch's wifeAbram Grinfeld as Lemzer, state rabbiMikhail Rostovtsev as Short ClownNikolai Cherkasov as Tall ClownAleksandr Nenyukov as PyotrMariya Dobrova as 'Star' of the CircusAleksandr Sandel as Shpis, industrialistIgor DoroninMariya Shlenskaya as Old revolutionary (uncredited)More like this
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