His Excellency

His Excellency

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1928•58 min•Drama
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Leonid Leonidov
Leonid Leonidov
Governor von Wahl / Old Rabbi
Mariya Sinelnikova
Mariya Sinelnikova
Miriam
Yuliy Untershlak
Yuliy Untershlak
Hirsch Lekkert
Tamara Adelheim
Tamara Adelheim
Rivile, Hirsch's wife
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Abram Grinfeld
Lemzer, state rabbi
Mikhail Rostovtsev
Mikhail Rostovtsev
Short Clown
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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