Film

His Excellency 1928

58 min TMDB 7.5 Drama

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.

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Cast

  • Leonid Leonidov as Governor von Wahl / Old Rabbi
  • Mariya Sinelnikova as Miriam
  • Yuliy Untershlak as Hirsch Lekkert
  • Tamara Adelheim as Rivile, Hirsch's wife
  • Abram Grinfeld as Lemzer, state rabbi
  • Mikhail Rostovtsev as Short Clown

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