Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam

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.