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His Excellency

Genre:Drama

Released:1928-03-20

Runtime:58

Overview

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

Character: Governor von Wahl / Old Rabbi

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Mariya Sinelnikova

Character: Miriam

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Yuliy Untershlak

Character: Hirsch Lekkert

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Tamara Adelheim

Character: Rivile, Hirsch's wife

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Abram Grinfeld

Character: Lemzer, state rabbi

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Mikhail Rostovtsev

Character: Short Clown

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Nikolai Cherkasov

Character: Tall Clown

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Aleksandr Nenyukov

Character: Pyotr

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Mariya Dobrova

Character: 'Star' of the Circus

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Aleksandr Sandel

Character: Shpis, industrialist

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Igor Doronin

Character:

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Mariya Shlenskaya

Character: Old revolutionary (uncredited)

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