Concert screening: The Ancient Law
When:
Wednesday, Dec 12, 2018 7:00p -
10:00p
Wednesday, Dec 12, 2018 7:00p -
10:00p
Where:
National Museum of American Jewish History
101 S Independence Mall E
Philadelphia, PA
Admission:
Unknown
Categories:
Festivals & Fairs, Film, Performing Arts
Event website:
https://www.nmajh.org/CalendarEvent.aspx?eventid=626
Renowned Klezmer fiddler Alicia Svigals and silent film pianist Donald Sosin return to NMAJH with an original score they will perform LIVE during a screening of THE ANCIENT LAW.
One of the hottest tickets at the 68th Berlinale, Ewald André Dupont’s classic German silent film, THE ANCIENT LAW, tells the story of Baruch (Ernst Deutsch), the son of a rabbi in Galicia during the 1860s who catches the acting bug and leaves home against his father’s will to join a traveling theater troupe only to return to his family and life in the shtetl.
Made during the mass migration of Eastern European Jews fleeing the Russian Revolution and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the film’s depiction of 19th century Jewish life in Europe is sympathetic to the Orthodox Jewish culture of Europe’s nascent refugee population while still highlighting the tension between tradition and modernity.
Four years after its release, THE ANCIENT LAW served as the primary source material for The Jazz Singer (1927).
Germany, 1923, 2 hr 8 min. German with English subtitles.
Special thanks:
The restoration of this lost masterpiece of German-Jewish cinema was made possible by a collaboration between the Deutsche Kinemathek and ARRI laboratory, together with ZDF and ARTE.
Alicia Svigals photo by Tina Chaden
