Watch His Excellency (1928) Official Trailer
7.5 / 10 IMDb March 20, 1928 0h 58m
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.
Director
Runtime
0h 58m
Release Date
March 20, 1928
Genre
Drama
Status
Released
Languages
Russian
Country
Soviet Union
Cast
Leonid Leonidov
as Governor von Wahl / Old Rabbi
Mariya Sinelnikova
as Miriam
Yuliy Untershlak
as Hirsch Lekkert
Tamara Adelheim
as Rivile, Hirsch's wife
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Abram Grinfeld
as Lemzer, state rabbi
Mikhail Rostovtsev
as Short Clown
Nikolai Cherkasov
as Tall Clown
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Aleksandr Nenyukov
as Pyotr
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Mariya Dobrova
as 'Star' of the Circus
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Aleksandr Sandel
as Shpis, industrialist
Igor Doronin
Mariya Shlenskaya
as Old revolutionary (uncredited)
Production Companies
Belgoskino
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