Golem, The Petrified Garden
1993 · Movie · 87 min. · France
Danny Cornish, a sort of stateless man who arranges art exhibits, is called from Tel Aviv to Paris with the news that a great uncle has died, in Birobidjan, the autonomous Jewish zone in Russia, leaving him a valuable art collection and the hand of a huge sculpture of a Golem. The uncle's will instructs Danny to find the rest of the statue, so Danny, who speaks no Russian, embarks on a trip that takes him (and the Golem's hand) to Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Siberia, fumbling with hotel clerks, taxi drivers, and bureaucrats, following leads, and making discoveries about myth, story telling, art, and hope.
Direction Amos Gitai
Cast Jerome Koenig · Hanna Schygulla · Samuel Fuller · Masha Itkina · Natalia Voitulevitch-Manor · Yuri Klepikov
Soundtrack Markus Stockhausen · Simon Stockhausen
Screenplay Amos Gitai · Tonino Guerra
Cinematography Henri Alekan · Luc Drion · Eduard Timlin
Original title Golem, le jardin pétrifié
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Not rated (FilmAffinity)
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