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His Excellency
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His Excellency

1928-03-20 · 58 min · ★ 7.5

Drama

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.

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Directors
Grigoriy Roshal
Production companies
Belgoskino
Countries
Soviet Union
Status
Released

Top Cast

Leonid LeonidovLeonid LeonidovGovernor von Wahl / Old Rabbi
Mariya SinelnikovaMariya SinelnikovaMiriam
Yuliy UntershlakYuliy UntershlakHirsch Lekkert
Tamara AdelheimTamara AdelheimRivile, Hirsch's wife
Abram GrinfeldLemzer, state rabbi
Mikhail RostovtsevMikhail RostovtsevShort Clown
Nikolai CherkasovNikolai CherkasovTall Clown
Aleksandr NenyukovPyotr
Mariya Dobrova'Star' of the Circus
Aleksandr SandelShpis, industrialist
Igor DoroninIgor Doronin
Mariya ShlenskayaMariya ShlenskayaOld revolutionary (uncredited)

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