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Golem, The Petrified Garden

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Original title

Golem, le jardin pétrifié

Year

1993

Running time

87 min.

Country

France

Director

Amos Gitai

Screenwriter

Amos Gitai, Tonino Guerra

Cast

Music

Markus Stockhausen, Simon Stockhausen

Cinematography

Henri Alekan, Luc Drion, Eduard Timlin

Producer

Co-production France-Germany-Russia-Israel;

Agav Films, Facets Multimedia Distribution

Genre

Drama

Synopsis

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.

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Golem, The Petrified Garden

1993

Amos Gitai