Carl Boese

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German film director and screenwriter, born in 1887. Best known for co-directing The Golem: How He Came into the World (1920) with Paul Wegener, he went on to direct dozens of German comedies and entertainment films through the 1950s. He died in 1958.

Directed

7.01920·1h 16mPD

Horror, Fantasy

The surviving masterpiece of German expressionist horror. In 16th century Prague, Rabbi Loew (Albert Steinrück) sculpts a giant of clay and brings it to life with a magic word to defend the ghetto from an imperial decree of expulsion — but the Golem (Paul Wegener, who co-directed with Carl Boese) will not remain a servant. The staggered Expressionist sets, built like crooked clay houses, and the creation sequence's Kabbalistic ritual became templates for Frankenstein and every creature feature after. This was Wegener's third Golem film and the only one to survive substantially intact. A century on, it remains genuinely uncanny. Published in 1920, it is in the public domain in the United States.

Horror · Fantasy · Silent

The Golem: How He Came into the World

1920 - Horror