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The Golem : how he came into the world / Transit Film, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Stiftung ; Union-Film ; directed by Paul Wegener, Carl Boese ; screenplay, Paul Wegener.
Van Pelt - Freedman Jewish Sound Archives DVD PN1997 .G57752 2002
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- Format:
- Archive
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Judah Loew ben Bezalel, approximately 1525-1609--Legends.
- Judah Loew ben Bezalel.
- Judah Loew ben Bezalel, approximately 1525-1609.
- Golem--Drama.
- Golem.
- Czech drama--20th century--Film adaptations.
- Czech drama.
- Jewish legends.
- Genre:
- Feature films.
- Motion pictures, German.
- Silent films.
- Film adaptations.
- Drama.
- Legends.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (86 min.) : silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- monochrome
- Edition:
- Restored authorized edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Kino on Video, [2002]
- Language Note:
- Silent with musical score and English intertitles.
- System Details:
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1; stereo.
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- Story is set in medieval Prague. The Rabbi gives life to the Golem who falls in love with the Rabbi's daughter and brings fear to the emperor's court. He is destroyed by an innocent child. Based on the legend of the Golem, a popular figure in Jewish tradition.
- Participant:
- Paul Wegener, Albert Steinrück, Lyda Salmonova, Ernst Deutsch, Hans Sturm.
- Credits:
- Camera, Karl Freund; music, Aljoscha Zimmermann.
- Notes:
- Videodisc release of the silent motion picture produced in 1920.
- "Pictures based on events in an old chronicle by Paul Wegener, five chapters"--Opening title frames.
- "This Kino on Video edition was restored by the Cineteca del Comune di Bologne at the laboratories of L'Immagine Ritrovata."--Container.
- Special: excerpt of Julien Duvivier's 1936 film: Le Golem; scene comparison, featuring excerpts of F.W. Murnau's Faust (1926), and Chayim Bloch's book The Golem (1925); gallery of photographs and artwork.
- Aspect ratio 1.33:1.
- Local Notes:
- Freedman Archive Collection. Disc V0170.
- OCLC:
- 50908393
- Publisher Number:
- 738329025526
- K255 Kino on Video
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