His Excellency (1928)
0h 58m | PG-13
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.
Director: Grigoriy Roshal
Studio: Belgoskino
Genre: Drama
Video: 720p
Cast
Leonid Leonidov
as Governor von Wahl / Old Rabbi
Mariya Sinelnikova
as Miriam
Yuliy Untershlak
as Hirsch Lekkert
Nikolai Cherkasov
as Tall Clown
Tamara Adelheim
as Rivile
Mikhail Rostovtsev
as Short Clown