His Excellency

His Excellency

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1928-03-20 | 58 min
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

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Leonid Leonidov

Governor von Wahl / Old Rabbi

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Mariya Sinelnikova

Miriam

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Yuliy Untershlak

Hirsch Lekkert

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Tamara Adelheim

Rivile, Hirsch's wife

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Abram Grinfeld

Lemzer, state rabbi

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Mikhail Rostovtsev

Short Clown

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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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