His Excellency

7.0

Genre: Drama
Run time: 58 min
Premiere: 1928. March 20.

Director: Grigoriy Roshal
Writer: Vera Stroyeva Serafima Roshal
Starring: Leonid Leonidov Mariya Sinelnikova Yuliy Untershlak Nikolai Cherkasov

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.