This Ancient Law

This Ancient Law

Das alte Gesetz
🎞️ Movie 128 min DE
โ˜… 7.2 /10 1923

Baruch Mayr, son of an orthodox rabbi from a poor shtetl in Galizia, decides to break with the family tradition and leave the shtetl to become an actor. Due to this behaviour his father bans him from his family. Baruch, who joined a small burlesque troupe is discovered by an Austrian Erzherzogin (archdutchess) who introduces him to the director of the most important Theater in Vienna, the Burgtheater. Baruch receives a contract there and becomes more and more an assimilated jew. But his relation with the Erzherzogin isn't approved by the Austrian court, so they have to end it. When an old friend of his father, who is always traveling from one Jewish community to the next (and has told him first about the theatres in the world), Baruch becomes a little bit homesick and returns for a holiday to his old shtetl to see his folks and to pick up his childhood sweetheart. But his father wants him not to enter his house, so he returns to Vienna, with his bride. But his old friend does not stop trying to convince his father of his errors.

Cast

Henny Porten
Henny Porten
Erzherzogin Elisabeth Theresia
Ruth Weyher
Ruth Weyher
Hofdame
Hermann Vallentin
Hermann Vallentin
Heinrich Laube
๐Ÿ‘ค
Avrom Morewski
Rabbiner Mayer
Ernst Deutsch
Ernst Deutsch
Baruch, sein Sohn
๐Ÿ‘ค
Grete Berger
Seine Mutter
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Robert Garrison
Ruben Pick
Werner Krauss
Werner Krauss
Nathan, der Professor
Margarete Schlegel
Margarete Schlegel
Esther, seine Tochter
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Jakob Tiedtke
Direktor der Schauspieler
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Donald Sosin
Composer
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Alicia Svigals
Composer
Theodor Sparkuhl
Theodor Sparkuhl
Cinematographer