Overview
- Description
- Silent feature film, originally produced in 1927(?) and restored in 1991 by NCJF with English intertitles. No opening or closing credits. See Soviet film under the title "Yego prevoskhoditelstvo". This film's plot deals mainly with ethnic peasants, banding together in solidarity against the regime. Also includes a requisite love story between a Rabbi's daughter and a struggling revolutionary.
- Film Title
-
His Excellency (aka Seeds of Freedom)
- Duration
- 01:19:58
- Date
-
Event:
1927
Production:
- Locale
-
Soviet Union
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of The National Center for Jewish Film at Brandeis University
- Contributor
-
Director:
Grigori Roshal
Editor: Mark Donskoy
Physical Details
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This archival media can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations.
- Copyright
- National Center for Jewish Film
- Conditions on Use
- Contact NCJF at pontius@brandeis.edu for permission to reproduce and use this film.
- Copyright Holder
- National Center for Jewish Film
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this video collection from the National Center for Jewish Film for general reference in July 2000.
- Note
- Credits for Restoration: Executive Director: Sharon Pucker Rivo; Associate Director: Miriam Sual Krant; Technical Coordinator: Richard Pontius; Translation: Robert Szulkin; Consultant: Sylvia Fuks Fried; Title Production: Loren S. Miller; Title Animation: Frame Shop; Laboratory: John E. Allen, Inc.
- Copied From
- 35mm
- Film Source
- National Center for Jewish Film
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 2632
- Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:59:37
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