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.
as Governor von Wahl / Old Rabbi
as Miriam
as Hirsch Lekkert
as Rivile, Hirsch's wife
as Lemzer, state rabbi
as Short Clown
as Tall Clown
as Pyotr
as 'Star' of the Circus
as Shpis, industrialist
as Old revolutionary (uncredited)
