29 October 1923 Drama 128 mins
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.
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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
Fritz Richard as Nathan
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
Germany 29 October 1923
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