Golem: The Petrified Garden

(1993)

★ 5.2 IMDb · 5 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1993

Runtime: 87 мин

Country: Israel, France

Director: Amos Gitai

Cast: Jerome Koenig, Ханна Шигулла, Samuel Fuller, Masha Itkina, Natalia Voitulevitch-Manor, Юрий Клепиков, Борис Хаимский, Yuri Khomutyansky, Macha Doubrovskia, Nikolay Bezzubov

Plot

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.