His Excellency
1928 · Grigoriy Roshal · 58 min
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.
Leonid LeonidovGovernor von Wahl / Old Rabbi
Mariya SinelnikovaMiriam
Yuliy UntershlakHirsch Lekkert
Tamara AdelheimRivile, Hirsch's wifeAbram GrinfeldLemzer, state rabbi
Mikhail RostovtsevShort Clown
Nikolai CherkasovTall ClownAleksandr NenyukovPyotrMariya Dobrova'Star' of the CircusAleksandr SandelShpis, industrialist
Igor Doronin
Mariya ShlenskayaOld revolutionary (uncredited)
