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Pickford Film Center, in cooperation with Congregation Beth Israel, presents an afternoon of live music accompanying the silent film The Ancient Law. Joining us are pianist-composer Donald Sosin and violinist-composer Alicia Svigals performing their score for the film.
The film: From Pordenone’s Le Giornate del Cinema Muto and Vienna’s Metro Kinokulturhaus to Lincoln Center, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, and dozens of other major venues around the country, E.A. Dupont’s 1923 masterpiece, The Ancient Law, has been hailed by critics and audiences alike. The film is a partly true story of a rabbi’s son who shuns the shtetl to become an actor. Henny Porten plays a sly archduchess courting budding actor Ernst Deutsch, with a superb backup cast of Weimar Berlin’s finest actors and stunning sets and costumes.
