His Excellency (1928)

Genre : Drama

Runtime : 58M

Director : Grigoriy Roshal
Writer : Vera Stroyeva, Serafima Roshal

Synopsis

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.

Actors

Leonid Leonidov
Leonid Leonidov
Governor von Wahl / Old Rabbi
Mariya Sinelnikova
Mariya Sinelnikova
Miriam
Yuliy Untershlak
Yuliy Untershlak
Hirsch Lekkert
Nikolai Cherkasov
Nikolai Cherkasov
Tall Clown
Tamara Adelheim
Tamara Adelheim
Rivile
Mikhail Rostovtsev
Mikhail Rostovtsev
Short Clown
Igor Doronin
Igor Doronin

Crews

Grigoriy Roshal
Grigoriy Roshal
Director
Vera Stroyeva
Vera Stroyeva
Screenplay
Nikolay Kozlovsky
Nikolay Kozlovsky
Director of Photography
Serafima Roshal
Serafima Roshal
Screenplay
Mark Donskoy
Mark Donskoy
Editor
Isaak Makhlis
Isaak Makhlis
Production Design

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