Golem: The Petrified Garden

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.

Cast

Jerome Koenig

Daniel Cornish

Hanna Schygulla

Michelle

Samuel Fuller

Sam

Masha Itkina

Macha

Natalia Voitulevitch-Manor

Yuri Klepikov

Boris Khaimsky

Yuri Khomutyansky

Macha Doubrovskia

Nikolay Bezzubov