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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7.5 / 10
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Leonid Leonidov
Governor von Wahl / Old Rabbi
Мария Синельникова
Miriam
Yuliy Untershlak
Hirsch Lekkert
Тамара Адельгейм
Rivile, Hirsch's wife
Abram Grinfeld
Lemzer, state rabbi
Mikhail Rostovtsev
Short Clown
Николай Черкасов
Tall Clown
Aleksandr Nenyukov
Pyotr
Мария Доброва
'Star' of the Circus
Aleksandr Sandel
Shpis, industrialist
Мария Шленская
Old revolutionary (uncredited)