Overview
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.
Cast
- Leonid Leonidov as Governor von Wahl / Old Rabbi
- Mariya Sinelnikova as Miriam
- Yuliy Untershlak as Hirsch Lekkert
- Tamara Adelheim as Rivile, Hirsch's wife
- Abram Grinfeld as Lemzer, state rabbi
- Mikhail Rostovtsev as Short Clown
- Nikolai Cherkasov as Tall Clown
- Aleksandr Nenyukov as Pyotr
- Mariya Dobrova as 'Star' of the Circus
- Aleksandr Sandel as Shpis, industrialist