(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The life of Hirsch Lekert, Jewish workman of Vilna and one of the heroes of the Russian revolutionary movement, who assassinated the Czarist governor general and was banged for the act, is made the subject of a moving picture produced by the Communist government.
The film is the first of a series of what is termed Jewish revolutionary pictures prepared for propaganda purposes among the Jewish population. The film will have its first showing in Moscow soon.
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