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.
Leonid Leonidov
as Governor von Wahl / Old Rabbi
Мария Синельникова
as Miriam
Yuliy Untershlak
as Hirsch Lekkert
Николай Черкасов
as Tall Clown
Тамара Адельгейм
as Rivile
Михаил Ростовцев
as Short Clown
Igor Doronin
as
