The Ancient Law
- original title
- Das Alte Gesetz
- Director
- Ewald André Dupont
- Cast
- Ernst Deutsch, Henny Porten, Ruth Weyher, Hermann Vallentin, Abraham Morewski, Grete Berger, Robert Garrison, Fritz Richard
- Country
- Germany
- Year
- 1923
- Duration
- 135 min
Baruch, a rabbi’s son, is dreaming of moving away from his small Galician shtetl and becoming an actor, much to his father’s chagrin. Joining a travelling theatre troupe, he soon meets Austrian Archduchess Elisabeth Theresia, who falls for him. With her support he becomes a star of the stage in Vienna, but will he ever be able to reconcile his new-found fame with the Jewish home he left behind? A stunning new restored version of this German-Jewish film classic.