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.

Country:

Soviet Union

Genre:

Drama

Duration:

58 minutes

Year:

1928

Director:

Grigoriy Roshal

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Company:

Belgoskino

Cast:

Governor von Wahl / Old Rabbi

Miriam

Hirsch Lekkert

Rivile, Hirsch's wife

Lemzer, state rabbi

Crew:

Director

Editor

Production Design

Screenplay

Director of Photography