His Excellency (1928 film)

His Excellency (Russian: Его превосходительство, romanized: Yego prevoskhoditelstvo) is a 1928 Soviet drama film directed by Grigori Roshal.

On 5 May 1902, shoemaker-laborer Hirsh Lekert, a member of the Jewish party Bund, attempted to murder the governor of Vilnius, Victor von Wahl.

On the eve of 1 May leaflets turn up in the city with the appeal to support the May Day demonstration of Vilnius workers.

Despite advice from revolutionary friends (one intertitle states that "six shots do not make a revolution"), he shoots the governor and kills him.

The film is notable in that star Leonidov played two important roles, Governor Victor von Wahl and the "Old Rabbi."