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His Excellency poster

His Excellency

1928 58m 7.5Movie

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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Grigoriy Roshal

Director

Vera Stroyeva

Screenplay

Serafima Roshal

Screenplay

Top Cast

Leonid Leonidov

Leonid Leonidov

Governor von Wahl / Old Rabbi

Mariya Sinelnikova

Mariya Sinelnikova

Miriam

Yuliy Untershlak

Yuliy Untershlak

Hirsch Lekkert

Tamara Adelheim

Tamara Adelheim

Rivile, Hirsch's wife

Abram Grinfeld

Lemzer, state rabbi

Mikhail Rostovtsev

Mikhail Rostovtsev

Short Clown

Nikolai Cherkasov

Nikolai Cherkasov

Tall Clown

Aleksandr Nenyukov

Pyotr

Mariya Dobrova

'Star' of the Circus

Aleksandr Sandel

Shpis, industrialist

Igor Doronin

Igor Doronin

Mariya Shlenskaya

Mariya Shlenskaya

Old revolutionary (uncredited)