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His Excellency

His Excellency

Grigoriy Roshal

1928

  • Drama
7.5

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 & crew

  • Grigoriy RoshalDirector
  • Leonid LeonidovGovernor von Wahl / Old Rabbi
  • Mariya SinelnikovaMiriam
  • Yuliy UntershlakHirsch Lekkert
  • Tamara AdelheimRivile, Hirsch's wife
  • Abram GrinfeldLemzer, state rabbi
  • Mikhail RostovtsevShort Clown
  • Nikolai CherkasovTall Clown
  • Aleksandr NenyukovPyotr

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