His Excellency

Name: His Excellency
Genre: Drama
Released: 1928-03-20
Duration: 58 min
Rating: 7
Cast: Leonid Leonidov, Mariya Sinelnikova, Yuliy Untershlak, Tamara Adelheim, Abram Grinfeld

March 20, 1928
Directed by
Grigoriy Roshal

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.