His Excellency

Original title: Его превосходительство

Duration: 58 min

Release date: 1928-03-20

IMDB

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.

Drama

Его превосходительство

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Leonid Leonidov

Leonid Leonidov

as Governor von Wahl / Old Rabbi

Mariya Sinelnikova

Mariya Sinelnikova

Yuliy Untershlak

Yuliy Untershlak

as Hirsch Lekkert

Tamara Adelheim

Tamara Adelheim

as Rivile, Hirsch's wife

as Lemzer, state rabbi

Mikhail Rostovtsev

Mikhail Rostovtsev

Nikolai Cherkasov

Nikolai Cherkasov

Aleksandr Nenyukov

Aleksandr Nenyukov

as 'Star' of the Circus

Aleksandr Sandel

Aleksandr Sandel

as Shpis, industrialist

Mariya Shlenskaya

Mariya Shlenskaya

as Old revolutionary (uncredited)

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Grigoriy Roshal

Grigoriy Roshal

Production Design

Nikolay Kozlovsky

Nikolay Kozlovsky

Director of Photography

Serafima Roshal

Serafima Roshal

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