The Golem (1915 film)
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Plot
In modern times, an antiques dealer (Henrik Galeen) finds a golem (Paul Wegener), a clay statue brought to life by a rabbi four centuries earlier. The dealer resurrects the golem as a servant, but the golem falls in love with the dealer's wife. As she does not return his love, the golem commits a series of murders.
Preservation status
The Deutsche Kinemathek film archive possesses "108 meter fragments".[1] While many sources consider it a lost film, silentera.com states that a "print exists",[2] and Professor Elizabeth Baer notes in her book The Golem Redux: From Prague to Post-Holocaust Fiction that Donald Glut claimed in The Frankenstein Legend that "European film collector" Paul Sauerlaender tracked down "a complete print" in 1958; Baer is careful, however, to point out that "Glut provides no source for this information."[3]
See also
References
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- Fragments of The Golem is available for free download at the Internet Archive
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). The Golem at IMDb
- The Golem at AllMovie
- The Golem, a soundtrack written and performed by Black Francis at the 2008 San Francisco International Film Festival for the 1920 film The Golem: How He Came into the World.
