His Excellency

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 Rabbi

Mariya Sinelnikova

Miriam

Yuliy Untershlak

Hirsch Lekkert

Tamara Adelheim

Rivile, Hirsch's wife

Abram Grinfeld

Lemzer, state rabbi

Mikhail Rostovtsev

Short Clown

Nikolai Cherkasov

Tall Clown

Aleksandr Nenyukov

Pyotr