film and architecture section: The Golem: How He Came into the World by Paul Wegener, architecture and film appreciation

category: Architecture and Film (The waterloo University syllabus) (click HERE for syllabus)

film index: 28

film: The Golem: How He Came into the World

director: Paul Wegener, Carl Boese

writers: Henrik Galeen, Gustav Meyrink, Paul Wegener

production: Germany

release: October 29, 1920

playtime: 85 mins

visual: colour

Language: silent

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Genre: horror

Cast: Paul Wegener, Albert Steinrück, Lyda Salmonova, Ernst Deutsch, Hans Stürm

size: 700 mb

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The Golem: How He Came Into the World (original German title: Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam) is a 1920 silent horror film by Paul Wegener. It was directed by Carl Boese and Wegener, written by Wegener and Henrik Galeen, and starred Wegener as the golem. The film was the third of three films that Wegener made featuring the golem, the other two being The Golem (1915) and the short comedy The Golem and the Dancing Girl (1917), in which Wegener dons the Golem make-up in order to frighten a young lady he is infatuated with. It is a prequel to The Golem and is today the most widely known of the series.

The film concerns itself with the legendary creation of the golem, which had appeared in the earlier film, by Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel. In the 16th century, the Jews of Prague face persecution. Rabbi Loew creates a giant golem out of clay, to protect the people. Unfortunately, the creature rebels, setting fire to the ghetto, and wreaks deadly havoc. In the end, a small girl stops the golem by removing the amulet (magic star) from its chest.

The film concerns itself with the legendary creation of the golem, which had appeared in the earlier film, by Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel. In the 16th century, the Jews of Prague face persecution. Rabbi Loew creates a giant golem out of clay, to protect the people. Unfortunately, the creature rebels, setting fire to the ghetto, and wreaks deadly havoc. In the end, a small girl stops the golem by removing the amulet (magic star) from its chest.

IMDb link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0011237/
Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golem:_How_He_Came_into_the_World

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The Golem: How He Came into the World by Paul Wegener, architecture and film appreciation

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