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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."

Cast

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Leonid Leonidov

as Governor von Wahl / Old Rabbi

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Mariya Sinelnikova

as Miriam

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Yuliy Untershlak

as Hirsch Lekkert

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Tamara Adelheim

as Rivile, Hirsch's wife

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Abram Grinfeld

as Lemzer, state rabbi

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Mikhail Rostovtsev

as Short Clown

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Nikolai Cherkasov

as Tall Clown

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Aleksandr Nenyukov

as Pyotr

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Mariya Dobrova

as 'Star' of the Circus

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Aleksandr Sandel

as Shpis, industrialist

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Igor Doronin

as

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Mariya Shlenskaya

as Old revolutionary (uncredited)

Crew

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Grigoriy Roshal

Director

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Isaak Makhlis

Production Design

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Mark Donskoy

Editor

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Nikolay Kozlovsky

Director of Photography

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Vera Stroyeva

Screenplay

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Serafima Roshal

Screenplay