The Golem

Paul Wegener and Henrik Galeen, Deutsche Bioscop, Germany, 1915. Der Golem (German: Der Golem, shown in the US as The Monster of Fate) is a partially lost 1915 German silent horror film written and directed by Paul Wegener and Henrik Galeen. It was inspired by a Jewish folktale, the most prevalent version of the story involving 16th century Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel who created the Golem to protect his people from antisemites. Silent, about 60 minutes. Commons holds a complete File: print. Foreign production; catalogued unverified because source-country term is not cleared.