10 Jan 1927
Metropolis
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
His Excellency
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.
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Леонид Леонидов Governor von Wahl / Old Rabbi
Мария Синельникова Miriam
Yuliy Untershlak Hirsch Lekkert
Тамара Адельгейм Rivile, Hirsch's wife
Abram Grinfeld Lemzer, state rabbi
Михаил Ростовцев Short Clown
Николай Черкасов Tall Clown
Aleksandr Nenyukov Pyotr
Mariya Dobrova 'Star' of the Circus
Aleksandr Sandel Shpis, industrialist
Игорь Доронин 
Мария Шленская Old revolutionary (uncredited)
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