His Excellency
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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.
Status: Released
Released Date: 1928-03-20
Runtime: 58 mins
Director: Grigoriy Roshal
Spoken language: Pусский
Genres: Drama
Original title: His Excellency
Production Companies: Belgoskino
Production Countries: Soviet Union
Cast
Leonid Leonidov
Mariya Sinelnikova
Yuliy Untershlak
Tamara Adelheim
Abram Grinfeld
Mikhail Rostovtsev
Nikolai Cherkasov
Aleksandr Nenyukov
Mariya Dobrova
Aleksandr Sandel
Igor Doronin
Mariya Shlenskaya
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