Drama · Soviet Union · 1928 · 58m

His Excellency

Его превосходительство

Director

Cast

Leonid Leonidov as Governor von Wahl / Old Rabbi Mariya Sinelnikova as Miriam Yuliy Untershlak as Hirsch Lekkert Tamara Adelheim as Rivile, Hirsch's wife Abram Grinfeld as Lemzer, state rabbi Mikhail Rostovtsev as Short Clown

Crew

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

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.

Mood & Themes

partially lost film

Key Collaborators

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

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