The Golem (1915 film)

Der Golem German Der Golem , shown in the USA as The Monster of Fate is a 1915 silent horror film written and directed by Paul Wegener and Henrik Galeen. It is inspired by ancient Jewish legend. It is the first of a trilogy by Wegener, followed by The Golem and the Dancing Girl 1917 and The Golem How He Came into the World 1920. David Brooks, writing as a columnist for Minnesota Daily, said the film deals with the tragic issues in life.

The Deutsche Kinemathek film archive possesses 108 meter fragments. While many sources consider it a lost film, silentera.com states that a print exists, and Professor Elizabeth Baer notes in her book The Golem Redux From Prague to PostHolocaust Fiction that Donald Glut claimed in The Frankenstein Legend that European film collector Paul Sauerlaender tracked down a complete print in 1958 Baer is careful, however, to point out that Glut provides no source for this information.

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