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''''' | |title=<center>The Golem (1915)</center> | ||
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|imagecaption=Surviving still from the film. | |||
|status=<span style="color:red;">'''Lost'''</span> | |||
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'''''The Golem''''' was a silent 1915 German horror film written, directed by, and starring Paul Wegener and Henrik Galeen.<ref>[http://horror.wikia.com/wiki/The_Golem_(1915) Horror Wikia article.] Retrieved 19 Mar '16. </ref> It told the story of a petrified, human-sized monster made out of clay in ancient Prague who protected the Jewish people from their persecutors. It is brought back to life and used as a servant, but after falling into unrequited love with a woman, it goes on a murderous rampage. | |||
The film has been reported as lost since soon after its release. By 2007, some footage from the first act and a couple of minutes from the fourth act were recovered. | |||
{{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH-P52acgz8|640x480|center|The found footage edited together (mirror of the original, now-removed upload).}} | Another Golem film, [[The Golem and the Dancing Girl (lost silent film; 1917)|The Golem and the Dancing Girl (1917)]], has also been lost. | ||
==Surviving Footage== | |||
{{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH-P52acgz8|640x480|center|The found footage edited together (mirror of the original, now-removed upload).|frame}} | |||
==References== | |||
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[[Category:Lost films|Golem]] | [[Category:Lost films|Golem]] | ||
[[Category:Partially found media|Golem]] | [[Category:Partially found media|Golem]] |
Revision as of 05:48, 19 March 2016
Surviving still from the film.
Status: Lost
The Golem was a silent 1915 German horror film written, directed by, and starring Paul Wegener and Henrik Galeen.[1] It told the story of a petrified, human-sized monster made out of clay in ancient Prague who protected the Jewish people from their persecutors. It is brought back to life and used as a servant, but after falling into unrequited love with a woman, it goes on a murderous rampage.
The film has been reported as lost since soon after its release. By 2007, some footage from the first act and a couple of minutes from the fourth act were recovered.
Another Golem film, The Golem and the Dancing Girl (1917), has also been lost.
Surviving Footage
References
- ↑ Horror Wikia article. Retrieved 19 Mar '16.