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Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam

The Golem, How he came into the world
Film still from DER GOLEM, WIE ER IN DIE WELT KAM: A man looks in horror at the clay figure of the golem.

Sat 09.03.
17:30

  • Director

    Paul Wegener

  • Germany / 1920
    80 min. / 35 mm

  • Tinted version

  • Showing first: Der Golem (Paul Wegener, Henrik Galeen, D 1915) - Fragment

  • Cinema

    Arsenal 1

    zu den Ticketszu dem Kalender
  • On the grand piano: Eunice Martins

After Galeen and Wegener's close collaboration, their careers took diametrically opposed directions: While Galeen, who was Jewish, was forced to flee Germany after the Nazis seized power in 1933, Paul Wegener worked on several Nazi propaganda films until 1945.

DER GOLEM, WIE ER IN DIE WELT KAM: The film adaptation of the old Jewish legend about the human-like clay figure with whose help Rabbi Löw tries to avert impending disaster from Prague's medieval ghetto was one of the most successful films of the early 1920s. Hans Poelzig's buildings, which translated the Golem theme into architecture as primal as it is artificial, are of particular importance. Before the screening, we will show a fragment of the first Golem adaptation by Galeen and Wegener, THE GOLEM (1915). The second part, The Golem and the Dancer (1917) was lost.

Funded by:

  • Logo Minister of State for Culture and the Media