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.
Top Billed Cast
Leonid Leonidov
Governor von Wahl / Old Rabbi
Mariya Sinelnikova
Miriam
Yuliy Untershlak
Hirsch Lekkert
Nikolai Cherkasov
Tall Clown
Tamara Adelheim
Rivile
Featured Crew
Grigoriy Roshal
Director
Isaak Makhlis
Production Design
Mark Donskoy
Editor
Nikolay Kozlovsky
Director of Photography
Vera Stroyeva
Screenplay
Serafima Roshal
Screenplay