His Excellency

(1928)

★ 7.5 IMDb · 2 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1928

Runtime: 76 мин

Country: Soviet Union

Director: Григорий Рошаль

Cast: Леонид Леонидов, Мария Синельникова, Yuliy Untershlak, Тамара Адельгейм, Abram Grinfeld, Михаил Ростовцев, Николай Черкасов, Aleksandr Nenyukov, Мария Доброва, Aleksandr Sandel

Plot

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.