The Ancient Law

"Baruch Mayer, 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."

Cast

Ernst Deutsch

as Baruch Mayer

Henny Porten

as Erzherzogin Elisabeth Theresia

Ruth Weyher

as Hofdame

Hermann Vallentin

as Heinrich Laube

Werner Krauss

as Nathan, der Professor

Margarete Schlegel

as Esther, seine Tochter

Avrom Morewski

as Rabbi Mayer

Grete Berger

as Mother

Robert Garrison

as Ruben Pick

Jakob Tiedtke

as Direktor

Olga Limburg

as Frau

Alice Hechy

as Tochter

Julius Brandt

as Komödiant

Robert Scholz

Kálmán Zátony

Fritz Richard

as Nathan

Wolfgang Zilzer

as Page

Crew

E.A. Dupont

Director

Kurt Kahle

Production Design

Alfred Junge

Production Design

Theodor Sparkuhl

Director of Photography

Ali Hubert

Costume Design

Paul Reno

Writer

Heinrich Laube

Writer