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.
