His Excellency

His Excellency

58 mins | Drama | March 20, 1928

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.

His Excellency

58 mins | Drama | March 20, 1928

His Excellency
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.
Producers Belgoskino
Original title Его превосходительство
Directors Grigoriy Roshal
Writers Serafima Roshal, Vera Stroyeva

Cast

Leonid Leonidov

as Governor von Wahl / Old Rabbi

Mariya Sinelnikova

as Miriam

Yuliy Untershlak

as Hirsch Lekkert

Nikolai Cherkasov

as Tall Clown

Tamara Adelheim

as Rivile

Mikhail Rostovtsev

as Short Clown