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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Cast
12 people
Leonid Leonidov
Governor von Wahl / Old Rabbi
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Mariya Sinelnikova
Miriam
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Yuliy Untershlak
Hirsch Lekkert
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Tamara Adelheim
Rivile, Hirsch's wife
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Abram Grinfeld
Lemzer, state rabbi
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Mikhail Rostovtsev
Short Clown
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Nikolai Cherkasov
Tall Clown
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Alexander Nevsky
Aleksandr Nenyukov
Pyotr
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Mariya Dobrova
'Star' of the Circus
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Aleksandr Sandel
Shpis, industrialist
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Igor Doronin
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Mariya Shlenskaya
Old revolutionary (uncredited)
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Grigoriy Roshal Director · Vera Stroyeva Screenplay Serafima Roshal Screenplay
First release March 20, 1928 · Produced in Russia · Original title Его превосходительство
Production
Belgoskino
Production
Russia
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Original title
Его превосходительство
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Russia · March 20, 1928
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No release date listed for United States.
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