2nd
Annual Long Island Jewish Film Festival
Curated by David
Schwartz, Curator at Large at the Museum of the Moving Image
THE ANCIENT LAW
Sunday, May 5th at 2 PM
With live score performed by Donald Sosin and Alicia Svigals
$18 Public | $12 Members
This rarely seen silent film from Weimar Era Germany tells the dramatic story
of Baruch, a young shtetl Jew and the son of a Rabbi, who leaves his family and
community, seeking a secular career as a stage actor. Featuring wonderful
scenes depicting shtetl life, the film paints a complex portrait of the tension
between tradition and modernity. Like so many other Jewish artists of the era,
director E.A. Dupont and star Ernst Deutsch were both forced to flee their
homelands as the Nazis rose to power. (Germany, 1923, 128 mins, Silent with English Intertitles | Dir. E.A. DuPont)
For the full festival schedule, click here.
