
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)