A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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	Lyda Salmonova (center, right). Photograph: Silent Era image collection.

Cast: Rochus Gliese [the golem], Paul Wegener [the actor], Lyda Salmonova [Helga], Wilhelm Diegelmann, Emilie Kurz, Erich Schönfelder, Mr. Meschugge, Fritz Feilchenfeld (Fritz Feld) [a hotel page boy], [?] Friedrich Feilchenfeld or Friedrich Veilchenfeld?

Projektions Aktiengesellschaft Union-Film [PAGU] production. / Produced by Paul Davidson. Scenario by Paul Wegener, from a screen story by Paul Wegener. Set design by Rochus Gliese. Assistant director, Rochus Gliese. Cinematography by Mads Anton Madsen. / Released [?] April? 1917. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Feld’s film debut.

Comedy.

Survival status: The film is presumed lost : A print may exist in an eastern European film archive or in a private European film collection.

Current rights holder: Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung.

Listing updated: 28 March 2023.

References: Aylesworth-Monsters pp. 42, 143; Marrero-Vintage pp. 5, 10 : ClasIm-223 p. 59 : Website-Filmportal; Website-IMDb.