Movie, 1928
His Excellency
IMDb 7.5, 58 min, Drama, Soviet Union
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
12 credited
Leonid Leonidov
Governor von Wahl / Old Rabbi
Mariya Sinelnikova
Miriam
Yuliy Untershlak
Hirsch Lekkert
Tamara Adelheim
Rivile, Hirsch's wife
AG
Abram Grinfeld
Lemzer, state rabbi
Mikhail Rostovtsev
Short Clown
Nikolai Cherkasov
Tall Clown
AN
Aleksandr Nenyukov
Pyotr
MD
Mariya Dobrova
'Star' of the Circus
AS
Aleksandr Sandel
Shpis, industrialist
Igor Doronin
Cast
Mariya Shlenskaya
Old revolutionary (uncredited)
Details
DirectorGrigoriy Roshal
WritersVera Stroyeva, Serafima Roshal
GenreDrama
Runtime58 min
ReleasedTue, Mar 20, 1928
CountrySoviet Union
IMDBtt0017844
