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.
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Leonid Leonidov as Governor von Wahl / Old Rabbi
Mariya Sinelnikova as Miriam
Yuliy Untershlak as Hirsch Lekkert
Tamara Adelheim as Rivile, Hirsch's wife
Mikhail Rostovtsev as Short Clown
Nikolai Cherkasov as Tall Clown
Mariya Dobrova as 'Star' of the Circus
M. Shlenskaya as Old revolutionary (uncredited)
Grigoriy Roshal Director
Mark Donskoy Editor
Isaak Makhlis Production Design
Vera Stroyeva Screenplay
Nikolay Kozlovsky Director of Photography
Serafima Roshal Screenplay
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