Golem: The Petrified Garden

Overview

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 1, 1993

Original language

English

Spoken languages

English, Hebrew, Yiddish, Russian, French

Countries

Israel, France, Germany, Russia

Production

Agav Films,AGAV Films

Cast

Tamara Ourjoumova,Hanna Schygulla,Samuel Fuller,Yvan Mareev,Jerome Koenig,Yuri Klepikov,Aleksandr Gerasimov,Masha Itkina,Natalia Voitulevitch-Manor,Nikolay Bezzubovand 4 more

Director

Amos Gitai

Writer

Tonino Guerra,Amos Gitai

Cinematography

Eduard Timlin,Henri Alekan,Luc Drion

Music

Markus Stockhausen,Simon Stockhausen

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

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