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This Ancient Law (1923)
128 min | Drama

This Ancient Law (1923)

128 min | Drama

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 ...See moreBaruch 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. Written by Stephan Eichenberg See less

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Name	Known for
Henny Porten Erzherzogin Elisabeth Theresia Erzherzogin Elisabeth Theresia See fewer	Hintertreppe (1921)
Ruth Weyher Hofdame Hofdame See fewer	Wood Love (1925)
Hermann Vallentin Heinrich Laube Heinrich Laube See fewer	The Captain from Köpenick (1931)
Avrom Morewski Rabbiner Mayer Rabbiner Mayer See fewer	The Dybbuk (1937)
Ernst Deutsch Baruch, sein Sohn Baruch, sein Sohn See fewer	The Third Man (1949)
Grete Berger Seine Mutter Seine Mutter See fewer	Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)
Robert Garrison Ruben Pick Ruben Pick See fewer	The Hound of the Baskervilles (1929)
Werner Krauss Nathan, der Professor Nathan, der Professor See fewer	The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
Margarete Schlegel Esther, seine Tochter Esther, seine Tochter See fewer	Berlin-Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf (1931)
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