His Excellency (1928)
- Released
- Runtime 0h 58m
- Director Grigoriy Roshal
- Genres Drama
Synopsis
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
as Governor von Wahl / Old Rabbi
-
Mariya Sinelnikova
as Miriam
-
Yuliy Untershlak
as Hirsch Lekkert
-
Tamara Adelheim
as Rivile, Hirsch's wife
- Abram Grinfeld as Lemzer, state rabbi
-
Mikhail Rostovtsev
as Short Clown
-
Nikolai Cherkasov
as Tall Clown
- Aleksandr Nenyukov as Pyotr
- Mariya Dobrova as 'Star' of the Circus
- Aleksandr Sandel as Shpis, industrialist
-
Igor Doronin
-
Mariya Shlenskaya
as Old revolutionary (uncredited)
Crew
-
Grigoriy Roshal
Director
- Nikolay Kozlovsky Director of Photography
-
Mark Donskoy
Editor
-
Vera Stroyeva
Screenplay
- Serafima Roshal Screenplay
