Golem: The Petrified Garden

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Golem: The Petrified Garden (1993)

Directed by Amos Gitai

Drama · 1h 27m

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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Cast

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Jerome Koenig Daniel Cornish Hanna Schygulla Michelle Samuel Fuller Sam
M
Masha Itkina Macha
N
Natalia Voitulevitch-Manor Yuri Klepikov
B
Boris Khaimsky
Y
Yuri Khomutyansky
M
Macha Doubrovskia
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Nikolay Bezzubov
A
Aleksandr Gerasimov
T
Tamara Ourjoumova

Crew

Director
Amos Gitai
Writer
Amos Gitai, Tonino Guerra
Director of Photography
Henri Alekan, Luc Drion, Eduard Timlin
Original Music Composer
Simon Stockhausen, Markus Stockhausen
Editor
Anna Ruiz

Details

Original title
Golem, le jardin pétrifié
Release date
1993-01-01
Runtime
1h 27m
Genres
Drama
Original language
FR
Spoken languages
English, French, Hebrew, Yiddish, Russian
Countries
Israel, France, Germany, Russia
Production
AGAV Films