Rabbi Löw

Imperial envoy, count Hohentwiel, comes to Prague and, on his way past the Prague Jewish town he sees rabbi Löw coming out of a synagogue with his beautiful daughter Rachel who enchants him. In the evening he meets her again by chance but the girl refuses his amorous advances. The count wants to have her, however, so he asks rabbi Löw if he may become one of his pupils. The rabbi refuses him, believing him to be a heterodox and the offended count promises to take revenge. Not long afterwards, one of the count's servants stabs a soldier on duty in a fight and the count has the body taken to the rabbi's house in secret. The Jewish girl Miriam tries to get rid of the body with Mordechai, one of the rabbi's pupils but they are caught in the act and arrested. Miriam manages to flee and she tells the rabbi what has happened. In court the count accuses the Jews of the soldier's murder and the emperor orders that all members of the Jewish community be expelled from Prague. Miriam wants to free Mordechai and she takes the blame for the crime. Rabbi Löw goes to the emperor and defends the people of his faith. The emperor intends to use his power to find the guilty person. Löw conjurs up a vision of the count onto whom the ceiling comes crashing down as retribution. The emperor then revokes his decree. Miriam, however, has been tortured in prison and is now dying. After some time Low's household celebrates the wedding of Rachel and Mordechai. The angel of death appears before Löw and the rabbi then dies in peace. (According to an article appearing in the press at the time the film was made.)