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.
Directed byGrigori Roshal
Runtime1 h 16 min
On screen
Tamara Adelheim
Nikolai Cherkasov
Leonid Leonidov
Mikhail Rostovtsev