His Excellency

Name: His Excellency
Cast: Leonid Leonidov, Mariya Sinelnikova, Yuliy Untershlak, Tamara Adelheim, Abram Grinfeld

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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.

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Cast & Crew

Director: Grigoriy RoshalWriters: Serafima Roshal, Vera Stroyeva

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

Aleksandr Nenyukov

as Pyotr

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