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His Excellency

7.0 58 mins Drama   1928
Belgoskino  
Director(s): Grigoriy Roshal

Release Date: 20 Tue, Mar 1928

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.

Casts of His Excellency

Leonid Leonidov

as Governor von Wahl / Old Rabbi

Mariya Sinelnikova

as Miriam

Yuliy Untershlak

as Hirsch Lekkert

Tamara Adelheim

as Rivile, Hirsch's wife

Abram Grinfeld

as Lemzer, state rabbi

Mikhail Rostovtsev

as Short Clown

Nikolai Cherkasov

as Tall Clown

Mariya Dobrova

as 'Star' of the Circus

Aleksandr Sandel

as Shpis, industrialist

Mariya Shlenskaya

as Old revolutionary (uncredited)

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