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MOVIE • 1928
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.
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Drama
Top Cast
Leonid Leonidov
Governor von Wahl / Old Rabbi
Mariya Sinelnikova
Miriam
Yuliy Untershlak
Hirsch Lekkert
Tamara Adelheim
Rivile, Hirsch's wife
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Abram Grinfeld
Lemzer, state rabbi
Mikhail Rostovtsev
Short Clown
Nikolai Cherkasov
Tall Clown
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Aleksandr Nenyukov
Pyotr
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Mariya Dobrova
'Star' of the Circus
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Aleksandr Sandel
Shpis, industrialist
Igor Doronin
…
Mariya Shlenskaya
Old revolutionary (uncredited)
Grigoriy Roshal
Director
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Isaak Makhlis
Production Design
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Theatrical release date: March 20, 1928
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FilmStatus
Released
Release
March 20, 1928
Runtime
58 min
Language
Russian
Origin
Soviet Union
Budget
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