His Excellency
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.
Watch NowCast
Leonid Leonidov
Governor von Wahl / Old Rabbi
Mariya Sinelnikova
Miriam
Yuliy Untershlak
Hirsch Lekkert
Tamara Adelheim
Rivile, Hirsch's wife
Mikhail Rostovtsev
Short Clown
Nikolai Cherkasov
Tall Clown
Igor Doronin
Mariya Shlenskaya
Old revolutionary (uncredited)
You May Also Like
movieThe Safety of Objects
2002
movieXiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl
1998
movieThe Unforgivable
2021
movieThe Trials of Cate McCall
2013
movieBastard Out of Carolina
1996
movieTalhotBlond
2012
movieGigi & Nate
2022
movieWon't Back Down
2012
movieThe Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
1972
movieThe Secrets We Keep
2020
movieThe Edge
2010
movieKalashnikov AK-47
2020
movieAll Day and a Night
2020
movieGirl in the Box
2016
movieLucky Them
2013
movieRogue Agent
2022
movieHardball
2001
movieThe River
1984
movieThe Young One
1960
movieThe Visit
1964