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Thursday, Jan 10, 2019
7 PM (76 mins)
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The Golem
(Der Golem)
Digital Restoration
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On Piano
Paul Wegener, Albert Steinrück, Lyda Salmonova, Ernst Deutsch,
This visually astounding retelling of the Golem myth was inventively brought to life through the collaboration of codirector/actor Paul Wegener, set designer Hans Poelzig, and gifted cinematographer Karl Freund (The Last Laugh; Metropolis), whose work here is some of his best. In medieval Prague, a rabbi creates a monster to protect his people from destruction, but the monster, of course, soon answers only to his own call. A precursor of James Whale’s 1931 Frankenstein, whose visuals owe much to Freund’s, The Golem is a landmark of German Expressionism and early horror.
FILM DETAILS
Screenwriter
- Paul Wegener
- Henrik Galeen
Cinematographer
- Karl Freund
- Guido Seeber
Language
- Silent
- with German intertitles and English subtitles
Print Info
- B&W
- DCP
- 76 mins
Source
- Murnau-Stiftung
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