The Golem and the Dancing Girl

The Golem and the Dancing Girl
The Golem and the Dancing Girl
Directed by	Rochus Gliese; Paul Wegener
Written by	Paul Wegener
Produced by	Paul Davidson; Siegmund Jakob; Hanns Lippmann
Starring	Paul Wegener; Lyda Salmonova; Rochus Gliese
Release date	15 January 1917;
Running time	Unknown
Country	German Empire
Language	Silent with German intertitles

The Golem and the Dancing Girl (original German title: Der Golem und die Tänzerin) is a 1917 German silent comedy horror film. It is part of a trilogy, preceded by The Golem (1915) and followed by The Golem: How He Came into the World (1920). Paul Wegener and Rochus Gliese co-directed and acted in the film. Wegener also wrote the screenplay. This was the screen debut of Fritz Feld. It was produced by Deutsche Bioscop GmbH.^[1]

The Golem and the Dancing Girl is now considered a lost film, though silentera.com reports a print may exist in an "eastern European film archive".^[2] Troy Howarth wrote, "(the film) remains one of the earliest filmed examples of a horror spoof....makes it all the more regrettable that it has vanished so completely."^[1]

Plot

Not much is known of the plot, since the film is considered lost, but it appears to have been a parody of the earlier 1915 film Der Golem. Wegener plays an actor who, upon discovering the fear his performance generates when he assumes the role of the Golem in a film, decides to wear the costume to a party he is to attend, in order to make an impression on a dancer (Salmanova) who will be there.^[1]

Cast

Paul Wegener as the Golem. IMDb credits Wegener as playing the Golem (as he did in the other two films in the trilogy), while silentera.com states this role was played by Gliese.
Lyda Salmonova as Helga
Rochus Gliese
Wilhelm Diegelmann
Fritz Feld as hotel page (under his birth name Friedrich Veilchenfeld)
Emilie Kurz
Mr. Meschugge
Erich Schönfelder
Ernst Waldow

Reception

Troy Howarth wrote, "Not only is the film considered lost, it doesn't seem to have generated much notice upon its original release."^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era. Midnight Marquee Press. p. 188. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
^ "Der Golem und die Tänzerin". silentera.com. Retrieved 27 February 2013.

External links

Der Golem und die Tänzerin at IMDb

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[Workman-1] Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era. Midnight Marquee Press. p. 188. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.

[2] "Der Golem und die Tänzerin". silentera.com. Retrieved 27 February 2013.

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