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

Mariya Sinelnikova

Yuliy Untershlak

Tamara Adelheim

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Abram Grinfeld

Mikhail Rostovtsev

Nikolai Cherkasov

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Aleksandr Nenyukov

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Mariya Dobrova

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Aleksandr Sandel

Igor Doronin

Mariya Shlenskaya