His Excellency

Story

Synopsis

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.

Director

Grigoriy Roshal

Writers

Serafima Roshal, Vera Stroyeva

Language

Russian

Country

Soviet Union

Release date

20 March 1928

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Leonid Leonidov

  Governor von Wahl / Old Rabbi

• 

  Mariya Sinelnikova

  Miriam

• 

  Yuliy Untershlak

  Hirsch Lekkert

• 

  Tamara Adelheim

  Rivile, Hirsch's wife

• Abram Grinfeld

  Lemzer, state rabbi

• 

  Mikhail Rostovtsev

  Short Clown

• 

  Nikolai Cherkasov

  Tall Clown

• Aleksandr Nenyukov

  Pyotr

• Mariya Dobrova

  'Star' of the Circus

• Aleksandr Sandel

  Shpis, industrialist

• 

  Igor Doronin

• 

  Mariya Shlenskaya

  Old revolutionary (uncredited)