His Excellency
His Excellency
1928
Drama
Synopsis
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.
Credits
Director
Grigoriy Roshal
Cast
Abram Grinfeld as Lemzer, state rabbi
Aleksandr Nenyukov as Pyotr
Aleksandr Sandel as Shpis, industrialist
Leonid Leonidov as Governor von Wahl / Old Rabbi
Mariya Dobrova as 'Star' of the Circus
Mariya Sinelnikova as Miriam
Mikhail Rostovtsev as Short Clown
Nikolai Cherkasov as Tall Clown
Tamara Adelheim as Rivile, Hirsch's wife
Yuliy Untershlak as Hirsch Lekkert
Crew
Nikolay Kozlovsky (Director of Photography)
Mark Donskoy (Editor)
Isaak Makhlis (Production Design)
Serafima Roshal (Screenplay)
Vera Stroyeva (Screenplay)
Original Poster
His Excellency - Original Poster
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