Golem: The Petrified Garden

Golem: The Petrified Garden (1993)

Genres - Drama  |   Sub-Genres - Road Movie  |   Run Time - 87 min.  |   Countries - Germany, France, Israel, Russia  |   MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Clarke Fountain

Instead of simply traveling to eastern Siberia to collect a modern art collection willed to him by a forgotten uncle, Daniel (Jerome Koenig), who runs an art gallery in Paris, decides (for reasons which are never explained) to bring a ten-foot long hand along with him. It is perhaps a portion of a huge sculpture of a golem (an artifical being dicussed in Jewish legends). Thus, instead of flying to Vladivostok, he rents a truck in St. Petersburg and drives across Russia. Along the way, he drops hints about a short-lived experiment in social engineering: Birobidjian, an autonomous region created in Siberia in 1928 especially for Jews. Hanna Schygulla, who starred in the first film of this trilogy, also makes a brief appearance in this, the second. Sam Fuller, a pet of the European filmmaking community, also makes a brief appearance.

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modern-art, sculpture, Siberia, art-gallery, golem, hands, uncle