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His Excellency (1928)

7 | Mar 20, 1928 (SU) | Drama | 00:58

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.

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Leonid Leonidov
Governor von Wahl / Old Rabbi
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Yuliy Untershlak
Hirsch Lekkert
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Nikolai Cherkasov
Tall Clown
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Mikhail Rostovtsev
Short Clown

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