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Max Landa and Lillebil Christensen in Europa, postlagernd (1918)

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German postcard by Photochemie, Berlin, no. K. 2294. Max Landa and Lillebil Christensen in Europa, postlagernd/Europe Mail Storage (Ewald André Dupont, 1918).

Austrian actor Max Landa (1880-1933) started his career in silent films opposite Asta Nielsen. Later he starred as the cosmopolitan gentleman-detective Joe Deebs in the popular silent serial.

Norwegian actress and dancer Lillebil Ibsen (1899-1989) started her career as a young talented dancer and later became one of Norway's most distinguished stage actresses ever. As Lillebil Christensen, she acted in a few European silent films directed by major directors.

And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.

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Henny Porten and Ernst Deutsch in Das alte Gesetz (1923)

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German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 663/2, 1919-1924. Photo: Hans Natge, Berlin / Comedia Film. Henny Porten and Ernst Deutsch in Das alte Gesetz (E.A. Dupont, 1923).

Sturdy and blond Henny Porten (1890-1960) was one of Germany's most important and popular film actresses of silent cinema. She became the quintessence of German womanhood, ladylike yet kindhearted and not a little petit bourgeois. She was also the producer of many of her own films.

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Henny Porten in Das alte Gesetz

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German postcard. Comedia Film. Photo Hans Natge, Berlin. Ross Verlag, No. 663/3.

Henny Porten in Das alte Gesetz (E.A. Dupont, 1923).

Sturdy and blond Henny Porten (1890-1960) was one of Germany's most important and popular film actresses of the silent cinema. She became the quintessence of German womanhood, ladylike yet kindhearted and a not a little petit bourgeois. She was also the producer of many of her own films.

Henny Porten in Das alte Gesetz

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German postcard. Comedia Film. Photo Hans Natge, Berlin. Ross Verlag, No. 663/4. Henny Porten in Das alte Gesetz (E.A. Dupont, 1923).

Sturdy and blond Henny Porten (1890-1960) was one of Germany's most important and popular film actresses of the silent cinema. She became the quintessence of German womanhood, ladylike yet kindhearted and a not a little petit bourgeois. She was also the producer of many of her own films.

Henny Porten in Das alte Gesetz

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German postcard. Comedia Film. Photo Hans Natge, Berlin. Ross Verlag, No. 663/6. Henny Porten in Das alte Gesetz (E.A. Dupont, 1923).

Preceding a similar plot of the more famous Jazz Singer (Alan Crossland 1927) with Al Jolson, made just a few years after, in Das alte Gesetz the mid-19th century rabbi's son Baruch (Ernst Deutsch) decides against his father's wish to leave his shtetl in Galicia to become actor. He fist joins a wandering stage company, where the Austrian grand-duchess Elisabeth Theresia (Porten) likes him a lot and provides him an engagement at the Wiener Burgtheater. Baruch manages to become a celebrated and successful star. His father Rabbi Mayer (Avrom Morewski) is appalled by this life and rejects his son, but when he witnesses a performance of his son as Don Carlos, he is so impressed by his talent, he recognizes God's mercy in this and pardons his son. Baruch returns home, where his sweetheart from his youth (Margarete Schlegel) has waited for him all the time.

Das alte Gesetz was scripted by Paul Reno, while cinematography was done by Thomas Spahrkuhl. Sets were by designed by Alfred Junge, and executed by Curt Kahle, while costumes were by Ali Hubert. The film premiered in Berlin on 29 October 1923. The German press praised the film: „Dupont manages to visualize these two so different worlds, the ghetto milieu, which is separated from the outer world by a sheer insurmountable wall, and this world itself; the Vienna of the 1860's, led by the rhythms of Strauss' valzer and epitomized by the Burgtheater as artistic summit.“ (Film-Kurier Nr. 244, 30. October 1923)

Various prints of the films existed, which were quite different from each other and not always respected the original. The Deutsche Kinemathek recently did a full restoration and the restored, 135 minutes long version of the film was shown with live accompaniment on 16 February 2018 at the Friedrichstadt - Palast at the Berlinale 2018. Three days later it was showed on Arte TV.

Sources: www.epd-film.de/tipps/2018/berlinale-dvd-tipp-das-alte-ge..., IMDB, WIkipedia, filmportal.de.

Sturdy and blond Henny Porten (1890-1960) was one of Germany's most important and popular film actresses of the silent cinema. She became the quintessence of German womanhood, ladylike yet kindhearted and a not a little petit bourgeois. She was also the producer of many of her own films.