Golem: The Petrified Garden
Amos Gitai Drama 1994 France | Germany | Israel | Russia 1h27m
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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Rights owner | HanWay Films
Directors | Amos Gitai
Producers | Eleonore Feneux, Amos Gitai, Laurent Truchot
Writers | Amos Gitai, Tonino Guerra
Cast | Jerome Koenig, Hanna Schygulla, Samuel Fuller, Masha Itkina
DOP | Henri Alekan, Luc Drion, Eduard Timlin
