Golem Blu-ray with Booklet (Second Run Features/Region Free)

Piotr Szulkin (1950-2018) was a filmmaker of profoundly imaginative works, and Golem was his wildly iconoclastic debut feature.

In a bleak dystopian alternate future, a solitary worker suffers a breakdown after being interrogated about crimes he has no recollection of committing. Is he a real human, or a clone created by scientists in an attempt to engineer a new, more submissive race of humans?

A dark satire of Communist Poland in the late 1970s, Piotr Szulkin's Kafkaesque science-fiction allegory is a precursor to Blade Runner, and evokes the post-apocalyptic landscape of Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker. Its troubling depiction of irresponsible science, fake news and unfettered AI now make it all the more prescient.

Golem is presented in a 2K restoration of the film supervised by its late director Piotr Szulkin and sound engineer Nikodem Wolk-Laniewski. This set also includes for the first time anywhere on Blu-ray a selection of Piotr Szulkin's early short film works, newly remastered in HD - plus a new audio commentary by Polish cinema expert Michael Brooke and booklet featuring essays by Tomasz Kolankiewicz and Michał Oleszczyk.

Title Information:

Poland, 1979
Length / Golem: 93 mins
Length / Special features: 32 minutes
Sound: 2.0 Mono LPCM (48k/16-bit)
Colour
Original aspect ratio: 1.66:1
Language: Polish
Subtitles: English

Blu-Ray BD50 / 1080p / 24fps / Region ABC