
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.

Governor von Wahl / Old Rabbi

Miriam

Hirsch Lekkert

Rivile, Hirsch's wife
Lemzer, state rabbi

Short Clown

Tall Clown
Pyotr
'Star' of the Circus
Shpis, industrialist


Old revolutionary (uncredited)

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