His Excellency

1928Directed by Grigoriy Roshal

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Released: March 20, 1928
Runtime: 58m

About His Excellency

Drama

Synopsis

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
Original title: Его превосходительство

Principal cast

In billing order

Leonid LeonidovGovernor von Wahl / Old Rabbi
Mariya SinelnikovaMiriam
Yuliy UntershlakHirsch Lekkert
Tamara AdelheimRivile, Hirsch's wife
Abram GrinfeldLemzer, state rabbi
Mikhail RostovtsevShort Clown

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