
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.
Drama
His Excellency
Rating
7.0/10
Release Date
1928-03-20
Runtime
58 minutes
Status
Released
Cast

Leonid Leonidov
Governor von Wahl / Old Rabbi

Mariya Sinelnikova
Miriam

Yuliy Untershlak
Hirsch Lekkert

Tamara Adelheim
Rivile, Hirsch's wife

Abram Grinfeld
Lemzer, state rabbi

Mikhail Rostovtsev
Short Clown

Nikolai Cherkasov
Tall Clown

Aleksandr Nenyukov
Pyotr

Mariya Dobrova
'Star' of the Circus

Aleksandr Sandel
Shpis, industrialist

Igor Doronin

Mariya Shlenskaya
Old revolutionary (uncredited)
Production Companies
Belgoskino