CinemaOSMovie · 1928 · 0h 58m

His Excellency

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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.

Directed byGrigoriy Roshal

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Status
Released
Runtime
0h 58m
Language
RU
Released
March 20, 1928
Studios
Belgoskino

Featuring

Cast & crew

10 credited
Starring
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

Abram Grinfeld

Lemzer, state rabbi

Mikhail Rostovtsev

Mikhail Rostovtsev

Short Clown

Nikolai Cherkasov

Nikolai Cherkasov

Tall Clown

Aleksandr Nenyukov

Pyotr

Mariya Dobrova

'Star' of the Circus

Aleksandr Sandel

Shpis, industrialist

Creative team
Directed by
Grigoriy Roshal
Grigoriy Roshal
Written by
Vera Stroyeva
Vera Stroyeva
Serafima Roshal

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