SPECIAL EVENT – SILENT CLASSIC - THE GOLEM (DER GOLEM, WIE ER IN DIE WELT KAM) - Mar 18th
Friday, September 11th, 2009
The Golem was a clay statue of legend whose role was to protect the Jews of the Prague ghetto from an imminent pogrom. He fulfils his task but then turns on his rabbinical master. All is put right when a child removes the emblematic shem from his chest. The Cabinet of Dr Caligari is widely known as the definitive expressionist film, but some argue that the acting, the set design and the lighting of The Golem combine to make this the superior example. (Cert PG)
Dirs: Paul Wegener and Carl Boese 84 mins Germany 1920
Dirs: Paul Wegener and Carl Boese 84 mins Germany 1920
Andrew Youdell returns to accompany on piano our annual silent film. The screening will begin at 7.30 p.m. and take place at St Nicolas Church, Market Place, Abingdon.
