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His Excellency (1928)

0h 58m · 20 Mar 1928
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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.

Movie ID106970
GenreDrama
DirectorGrigoriy Roshal
Main castLeonid Leonidov, Mariya Sinelnikova, Yuliy Untershlak, Tamara Adelheim, Abram Grinfeld, Mikhail Rostovtsev, Nikolai Cherkasov, Aleksandr Nenyukov
Release date20 March 1928
Release year1928
LanguageRussian
Duration58 min (0h 58m)
Rating7.5 / 10 (TMDB)
Production houseBelgoskino

Director: Grigoriy Roshal
Writers: Vera Stroyeva, Serafima Roshal

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Leonid LeonidovGovernor von Wahl / Old Rabbi Mariya SinelnikovaMiriam Yuliy UntershlakHirsch Lekkert Tamara AdelheimRivile, Hirsch's wife
Abram GrinfeldLemzer, state rabbi
Mikhail RostovtsevShort Clown Nikolai CherkasovTall Clown
Aleksandr NenyukovPyotr
Mariya Dobrova'Star' of the Circus
Aleksandr SandelShpis, industrialist
Igor Doronin Mariya ShlenskayaOld revolutionary (uncredited)

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