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The Ancient Law

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'The Ancient Law' 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 decides to become an actor.

Cast



*Henny Porten as Archduchess Elisabeth Theresia

*Ruth Weyher as court lady

*Hermann Vallentin as Heinrich Laube

*Avrom Morewski (Abraham Morewski) as Rabbi Mayer

*Ernst Deutsch as Baruch, his son

*Grete Berger as his mother

*Robert Garrison as Ruben Pick

*Margarete Schlegel as Esther, his daughter

*Jakob Tiedtke as Director of the Actors

*Olga Limburg as his wife

*Alice Hechy as second daughter

*Julius Brandt as an old comedian

*Fritz Richard as Nathan the professor

*Wolfgang Zilzer as page

*Klmn Ztony as Joseph Wagner

*Robert Scholz

*Alfred Krafft-Lortzing

*Dominik Lscher

*Philipp Manning

References




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