Movie of the Week#6: The Golem (1920), Paul Wegener & Carl Boese
The Golem (Germany, 1920). Directed by Paul Wegener & Carl Boese. Written by Henrik Galeen & Paul Wegener. Cinematography by Karl Freund. Music by Hans Landsberger. Production Design by Hans Poelzig & Kurt Richter. Costume Design by Rochus Gliese. Cast: Paul Wegener, Albert Steinrück, Lyda Salmonova, Ernst Deutsch, Hans Stürm, Max Kronert, Otto Gebühr, Lothar Müthel. In Prague, sixteenth century, Rabbi Loew (Steinrück) hereby built a monster, the Golem (Wegener), to stop the persecution that the tyrannical Emperor Luhois (Gebühr) commits the Jewish people. Initially calling for the magic to try to move the court of Jewish suffering, Loew invokes the very destruction of the tyrant's castle, which is only held by the force of the Golem. Loew discovers, however, that the conjunction of the stars will make the monster turns against its creator. His assistant, Famulus (Deutsch), in love with his daughter, Miriam (Salmonova), Count Florian's lo...