Movie: His Excellency

Top 10 Billed Cast

Leonid Leonidov
Леонид Леонидов

Governor von Wahl / Old Rabbi

Mariya Sinelnikova
Мария Синельникова

Miriam

Yuliy Untershlak
Yuliy Untershlak

Hirsch Lekkert

Tamara Adelheim
Тамара Адельгейм

Rivile, Hirsch's wife

Abram Grinfeld
Abram Grinfeld

Lemzer, state rabbi

Mikhail Rostovtsev
Михаил Ростовцев

Short Clown

Nikolai Cherkasov
Николай Черкасов

Tall Clown

Aleksandr Nenyukov
Aleksandr Nenyukov

Pyotr

Mariya Dobrova
Mariya Dobrova

'Star' of the Circus

Aleksandr Sandel
Aleksandr Sandel

Shpis, industrialist

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    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.

  • Release Date

    1928-03-20

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    7

  • Rating:

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    Pусский
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