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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.

58m1928TMDb 7.5

Drama

Russian

Crew and Cast

Grigoriy RoshalGrigoriy RoshalDirectorLeonid LeonidovLeonid LeonidovGovernor von Wahl · Old RabbiMariya SinelnikovaMariya SinelnikovaMiriamYuliy UntershlakYuliy UntershlakHirsch LekkertTamara AdelheimTamara AdelheimRivile · Hirsch's wife
Abram GrinfeldLemzer · state rabbiMikhail RostovtsevMikhail RostovtsevShort ClownNikolai CherkasovNikolai CherkasovTall Clown
Aleksandr NenyukovPyotr
Mariya Dobrova'Star' of the Circus
Aleksandr SandelShpis · industrialistIgor DoroninIgor DoroninMariya ShlenskayaMariya ShlenskayaOld revolutionary

Storyline

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.

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Info

Original title
Его превосходительство
Status
Released
Released
20 March 1928
Runtime
58m
TMDB score
7.5 / 10 (2 votes)

Production

Director
Grigoriy Roshal
Writers
Vera Stroyeva, Serafima Roshal
Studios
Belgoskino
Countries
Soviet Union

Languages

Original
Russian
Spoken
Russian