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His Excellency

Grigoriy Roshal

1928 • 58m

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 V...

His Excellency

Cast

Leonid Leonidov

Leonid LeonidovGovernor von Wahl / Old Rabbi

Mariya Sinelnikova

Mariya SinelnikovaMiriam

Yuliy Untershlak

Yuliy UntershlakHirsch Lekkert

Tamara Adelheim

Tamara AdelheimRivile, Hirsch's wife

Abram GrinfeldLemzer, state rabbi

Mikhail Rostovtsev

Mikhail RostovtsevShort Clown

Nikolai Cherkasov

Nikolai CherkasovTall Clown

Aleksandr NenyukovPyotr

Mariya Dobrova'Star' of the Circus

Aleksandr SandelShpis, industrialist

Igor Doronin

Mariya Shlenskaya

Mariya ShlenskayaOld revolutionary (uncredited)

Crew

Grigoriy Roshal

Grigoriy RoshalDirector

Mark Donskoy

Mark DonskoyEditor

Vera Stroyeva

Vera StroyevaScreenplay

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His Excellency (1928) — Backlot Notes