His Excellency

Plot Summary

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.

Top Cast

Leonid Leonidov Governor von Wahl / Old Rabbi

Mariya Sinelnikova Miriam

Yuliy Untershlak Hirsch Lekkert

Tamara Adelheim Rivile, Hirsch's wife

Abram Grinfeld Lemzer, state rabbi