SILENT HORROR MOVIE: THE GOLEM WITH LIVE MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT

Cross-posted with LA and OC Weirdo Music and Art Forum

We've seen the Jack Curtis Dubowsky Ensemble perform live scores for several films, including "Nosferatu". Let's go see them perform "The Golem"

Venue: The Art Theater Long Beach, 2025 E 4th St, Long Beach, CA 90814

Date: Saturday, April 5, 2025 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM PDT

Tickets: $25.00 GA
https://arttheatre.easy-ware-ticketing.com/generaladmission/uFiw9s5LzUZqD5KxkxLldw

Dinner before the movie at 5:30
Lola's Mexican Restaurant
2030 East 4th Street
Long Beach, CA, 90814
(562) 343-5506

The Jack Curtis Dubowsky Ensemble brings their original live score to the 1920 silent classic THE GOLEM to the historic ART THEATRE in Long Beach, California! In 16th-century Prague, a rabbi creates the Golem - a giant creature made of clay. Using sorcery, he brings the creature to life in order to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.

About The Golem:
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.[1] Wegener claimed the film was based on Gustav Meyrink's 1915 novel The Golem, but, as the movie has little to do with existing Jewish traditions, Troy Howarth states "it is more likely that (the screenwriters) simply drew upon European folklore".

The film was the first of a trilogy produced by Wegener, followed by The Golem and the Dancing Girl (1917) and The Golem: How He Came into the World (1920).

In modern times, an antiques dealer searching the ruins of a Jewish temple, finds a golem, a clay statue that had been brought to life four centuries earlier by a Kabbalist rabbi using a magical amulet to protect the Jewish people from persecution. The dealer resurrects the golem as a servant, but the golem falls in love with Jessica, the dealer's daughter. When she does not return his love, the golem goes on a rampage and commits a series of murders.

Cast:

• Paul Wegener Golem
• Rudolf Blümner Gelehrter
• Carl Ebert Troedler
• Henrik Galeen Troedler, the antiques dealer
• Lyda Salmonova Jessica

Co-writer/co-director Henrik Galeen played a major role in the film (which was unusual for him) and years later went on to co-create other silent horror classics, such as F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu .

About Jack Curtis Dubowsky Ensemble
JCDE sparks new life with original scores to classic silent films including Nosferatu, The Golem, The Phantom Carriage, Sunrise, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and The Mark of Zorro, for which they released a soundtrack album ZORRO in 2017. A team of top players led by composer and conductor Jack Curtis Dubowsky, JCDE combines intricately composed material and structured improvisation.

JCDE :
Jack Curtis Dubowsky – Conductor, composer
Mason Moy - Conductor
R. Scott Dibble – Keyboards
Laurel Diskin – Violin
Gabriel “SLAM” Nobles – Percussion
Jeff Schwartz – Double Bass
Charles Sharp – Reeds
Sean Stackpoole – Flutes
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Release Date: 06/19/1921
Rating: NR
Run Time: 91 mins