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His Excellency

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Duration58 min.
LanguageRussian
StatusReleased
Release DateMar 20, 1928

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.

Genres

  • Drama

Casts

Leonid Leonidov

Governor von Wahl / Old Rabbi

Mariya Sinelnikova

Mariya Sinelnikova

Miriam

Yuliy Untershlak

Hirsch Lekkert

Nikolai Cherkasov

Nikolai Cherkasov

Tall Clown

Tamara Adelheim

Tamara Adelheim

Rivile

Mikhail Rostovtsev

Mikhail Rostovtsev

Short Clown

Igor Doronin