His excellency / the Rutenberg and Everett Yiddish Film Library ; [directed by Grigori Roshal].

Format
Video/Projected medium
Language
English
Published/​Created
Waltham, MA : National Center for Jewish Film, ©2007.
Description
1 videodisc (76 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

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    Summary note
    Based on the life of Hirsch Lekert, a shoemaker and militant Jewish Labor Bund member, who attempted to assassinate the Vilna governor in 1902 to avenge the flogging of workers who participated in a May Day rally. Although the film was intended "as a track against individualism...a greater emphasis is placed on class struggle within the Jewish community." Bourgeois Jewish Zionists find themselves pitted against fellow Jewish proletariats and the government.
    Notes
    Originally released as a motion picture in 1928.
    Creation/​Production credits
    Translation, Robert Szulkin.
    System details
    DVD-R, NTSC, all regions.
    Participant(s)/​Performer(s)
    Leonid Leonidov, Nikolai Cherkasov, J. Untershlak, Tamara Edelheim.
    Language note
    Silent with English intertitles.
    Also known as
    • Yego prevoskhoditelstvo
    • Seeds of freedom
    ISBN
    • 1585874442
    • 9781585874446
    OCLC
    173657059
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