Das goldene Kalb

The Earl of Essex, a favourite of the Queen, is in jeopardy of losing her favor after secretly marrying one of the Queen's ladies-in-waiting.

A young woman is killed after falling off her horse. Fate then shows the grief-stricken father what his daughter's life would have been like had she lived, but it is not how he had hoped.

The film "Der Kaufmann von Venedig" ( The Jew Of Mestri ) was written, produced and directed by Peter Paul Felner in the silent year of 1923 and is a free adaptation of "Merchant of Venice" written by Herr William Shakespeare. It is an elegant and expensive German film production that was shot on location in beautiful and decadent Venice with some of the most important Teutonic actors of the time: Henny Porten, Harry Liedtke und Werner Krauss and even the mysterious Max Schreck.

Early Hungarian feature from Michael Curtiz