1993
4.2 (4 votes)
1h 27m
Genres
Drama
Production Companies
AGAV Films
Golem: The Petrified Garden (Golem, le jardin pétrifié)
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.
Key Crew
Writer: Tonino Guerra, Amos Gitai
Director: Amos Gitai
Director of Photography: Eduard Timlin, Luc Drion, Henri Alekan
