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Das Alte Gesetz

Ewald André Dupont
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Germany 1923, directed by E. A. Dupont

Released by the Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen and Absolut Medien
Music: Philippe Schoeller or Donald Sosin
1 DVD, PAL, tinted, 135 minutes
Language: German (intertitles)
Subtitles: English, French, Lithuanian, Russian, Polish, Hungarian and Ukrainian
Regional code: codefree

14,90 €

Distributor website (in German)

Das alte Gesetz is one of the classic films of Weimar Cinema. Set in the mid-19th century, Baruch, the son of a rabbi, wants to become an actor. Against the will of his father, he leaves the Eastern European shtetl where he grew up and joins a traveling theater.

The young man finds a benefactress in Austrian Archduchess Elisabeth Theresia, who is secretly smitten with him. She provides Baruch with an engagement at the Burgtheater in Vienna, where his fame soars, and he becomes a celebrated stage star. One day his father attends one of his performances. The rabbi is moved by Baruch’s acting talent, leading to a reconciliation between them. Baruch stays in Vienna, where he settles down and assimilates, together with Esther, his childhood sweetheart.

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