His Excellency
1928 · 58 min
Drama
★ 7.5This 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.
Crew
- Director Grigoriy Roshal
- Screenplay Vera Stroyeva
- Screenplay Serafima Roshal
- Director of Photography Nikolay Kozlovsky
Cast
Leonid Leonidov
Governor von Wahl / Old Rabbi
Mariya Sinelnikova
Miriam
Yuliy Untershlak
Hirsch Lekkert
Tamara Adelheim
Rivile, Hirsch's wife
- A
Abram Grinfeld
Lemzer, state rabbi
Mikhail Rostovtsev
Short Clown
Nikolai Cherkasov
Tall Clown
- A
Aleksandr Nenyukov
Pyotr
- M
Mariya Dobrova
'Star' of the Circus
- A
Aleksandr Sandel
Shpis, industrialist
Igor Doronin
Mariya Shlenskaya
Old revolutionary (uncredited)
Crew
- Director — Grigoriy Roshal
- Screenplay — Vera Stroyeva
- Screenplay — Serafima Roshal
- Director of Photography — Nikolay Kozlovsky
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