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Director
  
E. A. Dupont

Genres
  
Silent film, Drama

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Cinematography
  
Theodor Sparkuhl

Duration
  

Country
  
Germany

Language
  
Silent German intertitles

Writer
  
Heinrich Laube
,
Paul Reno

Release date
  
29 October 1923

Cast
  
Henny Porten
,
Ruth Weyher
,
Hermann Vallentin

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The Ancient Law (German: Das alte Gesetz) is a 1923 German silent drama film directed by E.A. Dupont and starring Henny Porten, Ruth Weyher and Hermann Vallentin. The son of an Orthodox Rabbi faces hostility from his father when he decies to become an actor.

Cast

  • Henny Porten - Erzherzogin Elisabeth Theresia
  • Ruth Weyher - Hofdame
  • Hermann Vallentin - Heinrich Laube
  • Avrom Morewski - Rabbiner Mayer
  • Ernst Deutsch - Baruch, sein Sohn
  • Grete Berger - Seine Mutter
  • Robert Garrison - Ruben Pick
  • Werner Krauss - Nathan, der Professor
  • Margarete Schlegel - Esther, seine Tochter
  • Jakob Tiedtke - Direktor der Schauspieler
  • Olga Limburg - seine Frau
  • Alice Hechy - Beider Tochter
  • Julius Brandt - Ein alter Komödiant
  • Fritz Richard - Nathan the professor
  • Wolfgang Zilzer - Page
  • Kálmán Zátony - Joseph Wagner
  • Robert Scholz
  • Alfred Krafft-Lortzing
  • Dominik Löscher
  • Philipp Manning

    • References

    The Ancient Law Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    The Ancient Law IMDbThe Ancient Law themoviedb.org