His Excellency
movie
Released March 20, 1928
Genres:
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.
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
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Abram Grinfeld
as
Lemzer, state rabbi
Mikhail Rostovtsev
as
Short Clown
Nikolai Cherkasov
as
Tall Clown
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Aleksandr Nenyukov
as
Pyotr
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Mariya Dobrova
as
'Star' of the Circus
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Aleksandr Sandel
as
Shpis, industrialist
Igor Doronin
Mariya Shlenskaya
as
Old revolutionary (uncredited)
