His Excellency

His Excellency

1928
58m
7.0

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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.

Status: Released

Language: RU

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Production Information

Production Companies
Belgoskino
Production Countries
Soviet Union
Spoken Languages
Russian

Quick Facts

Original Title Его превосходительство
Release Date March 20, 1928
Status Released
Language RU
IMDb ID tt0017844

Cast

Leonid Leonidov
Leonid Leonidov

Governor von Wahl / Old Rabbi

Mariya Sinelnikova
Mariya Sinelnikova

Miriam

Yuliy Untershlak
Yuliy Untershlak

Hirsch Lekkert

Tamara Adelheim
Tamara Adelheim

Rivile, Hirsch's wife

Abram Grinfeld
Abram Grinfeld

Lemzer, state rabbi

Mikhail Rostovtsev
Mikhail Rostovtsev

Short Clown

Nikolai Cherkasov
Nikolai Cherkasov

Tall Clown

Aleksandr Nenyukov
Aleksandr Nenyukov

Pyotr

Mariya Dobrova
Mariya Dobrova

'Star' of the Circus

Aleksandr Sandel
Aleksandr Sandel

Shpis, industrialist

Igor Doronin
Igor Doronin

Mariya Shlenskaya
Mariya Shlenskaya

Old revolutionary (uncredited)

Key Crew

Grigoriy Roshal
Director
Vera Stroyeva
Screenplay
Serafima Roshal
Screenplay