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.
Leonid Leonidovas Governor von Wahl / Old RabbiMariya Sinelnikovaas MiriamYuliy Untershlakas Hirsch LekkertTamara Adelheimas Rivile, Hirsch's wifeAbram Grinfeldas Lemzer, state rabbiMikhail Rostovtsevas Short ClownNikolai Cherkasovas Tall ClownAleksandr Nenyukovas PyotrMariya Dobrovaas 'Star' of the CircusAleksandr Sandelas Shpis, industrialistIgor DoroninMariya Shlenskayaas Old revolutionary (uncredited)