His Excellency
Drama

His Excellency

7.0/ 10
March 20, 1928
58m

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.

Director: Grigoriy Roshal

Cast

Leonid Leonidov

Leonid Leonidov

Governor von Wahl / Old Rabbi

Mariya Sinelnikova

Mariya Sinelnikova

Miriam

Yuliy Untershlak

Yuliy Untershlak

Hirsch Lekkert

Tamara Adelheim

Tamara Adelheim

Rivile, Hirsch's wife

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Abram Grinfeld

Lemzer, state rabbi

Mikhail Rostovtsev

Mikhail Rostovtsev

Short Clown

Nikolai Cherkasov

Nikolai Cherkasov

Tall Clown

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Aleksandr Nenyukov

Pyotr

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Mariya Dobrova

'Star' of the Circus

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Aleksandr Sandel

Shpis, industrialist

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