Directed by:
Ewald André DupontCinematography:
Theodor SparkuhlCast:
Henny Porten, Ernst Deutsch, Grete Berger, Werner Krauss, Jakob Tiedtke, Alice Hechy, Wolfgang Zilzer, Ruth Weyher, Olga Limburg, Robert Garrison (more)Plots(1)
In the mid 1800s in Galicia, Baruch, the son of an orthodox rabbi, yearns to become an actor. Against his father’s will, he leaves the eastern European shtetl where he grew up and joins a travelling theatre troupe. Austrian archduchess Elisabeth Theresia becomes enamoured of the young man. Secretly in love with him, she arranges for him to join the company at Vienna’s Burg Theatre, where he rises to become a celebrated star of the stage. (Berlinale)
(more)Cast
Henny Porten
German Empire
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Anna Boleyn (1920)
Kohlhiesel’s Daughters (1920)
Ernst Deutsch
Austria-Hungary
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Grete Berger
Austria-Hungary
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Werner Krauss
German Empire
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Jakob Tiedtke
German Empire
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Alice Hechy
German Empire
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Jealousy (1925)
Wolfgang Zilzer
USA
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Ruth Weyher
German Empire
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Olga Limburg
German Empire
Robert Garrison
German Empire
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Hermann Vallentin
German Empire
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Robert Scholz
German Empire
Julius Brandt
Austria-Hungary
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Die Frau meiner Träume (1944)
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Margarete Schlegel
German Empire
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