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His Excellency

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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.

DirectorGrigoriy Roshal
WritersVera Stroyeva·Serafima Roshal

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Cast · Directed by Grigoriy Roshal

LLLeonid Leonidov
Leonid Leonidov
Governor von Wahl / Old Rabbi
MSMariya Sinelnikova
Mariya Sinelnikova
Miriam
YUYuliy Untershlak
Yuliy Untershlak
Hirsch Lekkert
TATamara Adelheim
Tamara Adelheim
Rivile, Hirsch's wife
AG
Abram Grinfeld
Lemzer, state rabbi
MRMikhail Rostovtsev
Mikhail Rostovtsev
Short Clown
NCNikolai Cherkasov
Nikolai Cherkasov
Tall Clown
AN
Aleksandr Nenyukov
Pyotr
MD
Mariya Dobrova
'Star' of the Circus
AS
Aleksandr Sandel
Shpis, industrialist
IDIgor Doronin
Igor Doronin
MSMariya Shlenskaya
Mariya Shlenskaya
Old revolutionary (uncredited)

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His Excellency hasn't started streaming in United Kingdom yet. Based on the typical 6–8 week theatrical-to-streaming window, we estimate it will arrive around May 8, 1928. This is a prediction, not a confirmed date.