Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam (1920)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.4/10   

Directors:

Carl Boese
Paul Wegener

Escritores:

Henrik Galeen (writer)
Gustav Meyrink (novel)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

19 junio 1921 (USA)

Género:

Fantasía | Horror

Frase comercial:

The 1920 Horror Masterpiece.

Plot:

In 16th-century Prague, a Jewish rabbi creates a giant creature from clay, called the Golem, and using sorcery...

Plot Keywords:

Golem | Rabbi | Jewish | Decree | Monster As Victim

Comentarios de los usuarios:

An anti-semitic movie or a premonitory one?

Reparto

Paul Wegener	...	Der Golem / The Golem
Albert Steinrück	...	Der Rabbi Löw / Rabbi Loew
Lyda Salmonova	...	Miriam, des Rabbi Tochter
Ernst Deutsch	...	Der Rabbi Famulus
Hans Stürm	...	Der Rabbi Jehuda, der Älteste der Gemeinde (as Hanns Sturm)
Max Kronert	...	Der Tempeldiener / Temple Servant
Otto Gebühr	...	Der Kaiser / Emperor Luhois
Dore Paetzold	...	Des Kaisers Kebse
Lothar Müthel	...	Der Junker Florian / Knight Florian
Greta Schröder	...	Ein Mägdelein mit der Rose / Little Girl with Rose
Loni Nest	...	Ein kleines Mädchen / Little Girl

También conocida como:

The Golem (USA)
The Golem: How He Came Into the World (USA)
El golem (Spain) [es]

Duración:

Germany:85 min (20 fps) | USA:91 min

País:

Alemania

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.33 : 1

Sonido:

Silent

Clasificación:

Australia:M | Germany:o.Al. | Spain:13 | USA:Unrated

Locaciones de Filmación:

Berliner Union-Film Studio, Tempelhof, Berlin, Germany

Compañía:

Projektions-AG Union (PAGU)

Trivialidades:

Debut of Fritz Feld.

Errores:

Continuidad: The golem's position relative to the beam when pulling the chain to stoke the fire.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Starcrash (1978)

An anti-semitic movie or a premonitory one?

Paul Wegener was one of the greatest German actors of the beginning of the 20th century. And if he is not known today, as Emil Jannings or Conrad Veidt, is because his preferred medium was theater and not cinema. Anyway he's one of the faces of German expressionism. Directed, produced and starring by Paul Wegener, "Der Golem" is a masterpiece of the so called German Expressionism. It's a disturbing and polemic movie, precursor of all the man-made creatures and monsters movies. The story goes around a Jewish community, in old Prague, threatened by exodus by the Emperor. The leader of the inhabitants of the Jewish ghetto build a enormous man of stone and clay and through magic gives him life, to help finishing the oppression they are victims. He becomes their frightful protector. The Golem is a mythic being, associated to the Jewish tradition, eventually the cabala. This movie is symbolic in all his essential elements and premonitory in the persecution to the Jews that Nazism will transform in the Holocaust. The film has the three basic elements of expressionism: distorted and claustrophobic scenarios, contrasted illumination suggesting shadows and a narrative that don't need words to be of a notable effectiveness in the management of fears.