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

Kálmán Zátony as Joseph Wagner

Robert Scholz

Alfred Krafft-Lortzing

Dominik Löscher

Philipp Manning

References

External links

German silent feature films

Films directed by E. A. Dupont

Films of the Weimar Republic

1923 drama films

German black-and-white films

Silent German drama films

1920s German films

The Ancient Law