6.3

Golem: The Petrified Garden 1993

Genres: Other

Country: Germany, France, Russia, Israel

Directors: Amos Gitai

Actors: Samuel Fuller, Hanna Schygulla, Jerome Koenig, Masha Itkina, Natalia Voitulevitch-Manor, Yuri Klepikov, Boris Khaimsky

Available Quality: DivX, iPod

Year: 1993

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.