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3 results found for '"Henny Porten"' in Person.

  • Alte Gesetz, Das (1923 Film)

    aka: Baruch Ancient Law, The

    Director
    Ewald André Dupont

    Feature film. In nineteenth-century Austria, a young Jew leaves the ghetto to become an actor. He eventually becomes famous and is reunited with his disapproving Rabbi father. Ernst Deutsch, as the Jew...

  • Kaufmann von Venedig, Der (1923 Film)

    aka: Shylock, Der Jude von Venedig Jew of Mestri, The

    Director
    Peter Paul Felner
    Producer
    Peter Paul Felner

    Feature film in theory based on Shakespeare’s own sources for The Merchant of Venice but in practice partly Shakespeare and partly director Felner’s invention. Werner Krauss is Shylock.

  • Othello (1909 Film)

    aka: Death of Othello

    Director
    Franz Porten
    Producer
    Oskar Messter

    A film depicting a scene from Verdi’s Otello, using the experimental synchronisation process known as the Biophon developed in 1903 by Oskar Messter. Ball (op cit, p. 33) describes how a camera turned...