Movie

His Excellency

★ 7.5/10 · 2 votes 1928 0h 58m Released

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.

Cast

Leonid Leonidov Governor von Wahl / Old Ra Mariya Sinelnikova Miriam Yuliy Untershlak Hirsch Lekkert Tamara Adelheim Rivile, Hirsch's wife A Abram Grinfeld Lemzer, state rabbi Mikhail Rostovtsev Short Clown