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