His Excellency

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.

Drama

Leonid Leonidov

(Governor von Wahl / Old Rabbi)

Mariya Sinelnikova

(Miriam)

Yuliy Untershlak

(Hirsch Lekkert)

Tamara Adelheim

(Rivile, Hirsch's wife)

Abram Grinfeld

(Lemzer, state rabbi)

Mikhail Rostovtsev

(Short Clown)

Nikolai Cherkasov

(Tall Clown)

Aleksandr Nenyukov

(Pyotr)

Mariya Dobrova

('Star' of the Circus)

Aleksandr Sandel

(Shpis, industrialist)

Igor Doronin

Mariya Shlenskaya

(Old revolutionary (uncredited))