(Non-)Adaptations For Film and Theatre
The novel was not the basis for four films of the title, which, rather, adapt the original Golem legend.
- The first, The Golem, directed by Paul Wegener, filmed in 1914, has been lost;
- The second, The Golem and the Dancing Girl, directed by Paul Wegener, filmed in 1917, has been lost;
- The third, The Golem: How He Came Into the World, directed by Paul Wegener, made in 1920, survives;
- The fourth, The Golem, directed by Piotr Szulkin, made in 1979, survives.
Nor was it the basis for the operas of Eugen d'Albert (Der Golem (opera)) or Nicolae Bretan (Golem (opera)).
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