
The Ancient Law – A Film and Concert
April 22, 2025 at 7:00 p.m.
The Ancient Law film is accompanied by a live, original score composed and performed by the world-famous klezmer violinist Alicia Svigals (co-founder of the Grammy-winning Klezmatics) and pianist Donald Sosin, a silent film music legend.
A sensational evening of history, music and spectacle, E.A. Dupont’s once-lost, now-restored 1923 German masterpiece tells the inspired-by-fact story of a rabbi’s son who shuns the shtetl to become an actor, and finds temptation from an archduchess. The cast is filled with Berlin’s finest stage and screen actors; the exquisite design is by a group of gifted, visionary artists. (Germany, 1923, 135m).
“A lost gem .. The cinematography is spectacular, emulating the light and shadow of a Rembrandt etching.” –Film Society at Lincoln Center
The film is 2 hrs, 15 min with no intermission and English subtitles. For questions and more information please email info@jscasheville.org.
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7 p.m.Venue:
18 Biltmore Ave.
Asheville, NC 28801 (map)