The Ancient Law, with Alicia Svigals and Donald Sosin

With an original live score composed and performed by renowned klezmer violinist Alicia Svigals and silent film music legend, pianist Donald Sosin, Tompkins Corners will present The Ancient Law Cine-Concert. Director E.A. DuPont’s 1923 silent film, The Ancient Law (Das Alte Gesetz) is about a rabbi’s son who runs away to become an actor and is disowned by his father. Digitally restored in 2017, it paints a complex portrait of the tension between tradition and modernity and is an outstanding example of the creativity of Jewish filmmakers in 1920’s Germany.