His Excellency (1928)

His Excellency (1928)

All the adventure a man can live, he lives. 1928-03-20 Soviet Union 58 Min. PG-13
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Drama

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.

Cast

Leonid Leonidov is Governor von Wahl / Old Rabbi
Governor von Wahl / Old Rabbi
Mariya Sinelnikova is Miriam
Miriam
Yuliy Untershlak is Hirsch Lekkert
Hirsch Lekkert
Tamara Adelheim is Rivile, Hirsch's wife
Rivile, Hirsch's wife
Abram Grinfeld is Lemzer, state rabbi
Lemzer, state rabbi
Mikhail Rostovtsev is Short Clown
Short Clown
Nikolai Cherkasov is Tall Clown
Tall Clown
Aleksandr Nenyukov is Pyotr
Pyotr
Mariya Dobrova is 'Star' of the Circus
'Star' of the Circus
Aleksandr Sandel is Shpis, industrialist
Shpis, industrialist
Igor Doronin is
Mariya Shlenskaya is Old revolutionary (uncredited)
Old revolutionary (uncredited)

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