Golem: The Petrified Garden (1993) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained

Release, runtime and language

1993 · 87 mins · French

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Directed by

Amos Gitai

Starring

Samuel Fuller, Hanna Schygulla, Yuri Klepikov, Natalia Voitulevitch-Manor, Masha Itkina, Jerome Koenig

Danny Cornish, a wandering curator, learns in Tel Aviv that his great‑uncle in Birobidzhan, Russia’s Jewish region, has died, leaving an art collection and a Golem statue hand. Though he doesn’t speak Russian, he travels to Moscow, St Pet­erburg and Siberia, dealing with clerks, taxis and bureaucracy while hunting the missing pieces and confronting myths of art.