His Excellency (1928)

1928 · 58 min · Drama

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.

Directed by Grigoriy Roshal. Starring Leonid Leonidov, Mariya Sinelnikova, Yuliy Untershlak, Tamara Adelheim and Abram Grinfeld.

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