German Filmmuseum Edition

[Stefan Andersson]

Der Golem (1920), the Filmmuseum München restoration w/ original music by Hans Landsberger, released Aug. 2026 on dvd from Ed. Filmmuseum:
https://www.edition-filmmuseum.com/prod ... t-kam.html

Also upcoming on blu from Deaf Crocodile, Autumn 2026:
https://richard-siedhoff.de/index.php?id=147

Update:
"In this DVD/bluray set there is everything that has survived of the silent Golem-films:
- all newly restored fragments of THE GOLEM (Der Golem, 1914) with newly rediscovered footage from argentinia
- a text and foto reconstruction of THE GOLEM AND THE DANCER (Der Golem und die Tänzerin, 1917)
- and of cause the famous expressionistic 1920 feature classic THE GOLEM, HOW HE CAME INTO THE WORLD (Der GOlem, wie er in die Welt kam 1920)
- many extras about Golems, the films and the original score and composer Hans Landsberger"
See post Sept. 17, 2026:
https://www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=39398
Post written by silent movie pianist Richard Siedhoff
https://richard-siedhoff.de/index.php?id=147

[Stefan Andersson]

Review of Der Golem (1920), the Filmmuseum München restoration w/ original music by Hans Landsberger:
https://therealmofsilence.com/ - Oct. 30, 2026 post
"The discovery of Landsberger’s score was also instrumental in the new restoration of Der Golem led by the Filmmuseum München, which was begun in 2015. Since the music was so precisely coordinated with the (original German version of) the film, Landsberger’s score revealed many details about the editing, duration, and titling that were otherwise unknowable."

[Stefan Andersson]

Runtimes for the Murnau-Stiftung and Filmmuseum Golem restorations:

"The 2018 Murnau-Foundation restauration runs 76 min at 20fps.
The 2020 Munich restauration runs 90 min at 18fps.

But: If you run the 2018 version at 18fps its just 83 minutes!
So the Munich version contains more than 5 more minutes of footage.

In the 2018 restauration many shots are shorted because they used for mostly all shots the camera-negativ that was re-worked, shorted and edited in 1921 for the american market. In the 2020 restauration all shortened elemets were repleaced by complete shots from beautifull nitrat copys from european versions that were not shortened."

The Filmmuseum "website was hacked and now they need to rebuild it."

Source: two Nov. 09, 2026 posts by Richard Siedhoff:
https://www.nitrateville.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=39398