Golem Blu-ray

'Golem' Director: Piotr Szulkin (1979) Second Run Blu-ray | Director-supervised 2K restoration | Region Free | Polish w/ English subtitles

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.

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?

Special features include:
- Audio commentary by producer and Polish cinema expert Michael Brooke
- Four of Piotr Szulkin's early short films, newly remastered in HD and presented for the first time anywhere on Blu-ray:
One, Two, Three (Raz, dwa, trzy, 1972)
Everything (Wszystko, 1972)
A Sketch in Six Parts (Szkic do sześciu części, 1973)
Copyright Film Polski MCMLXXVI (1976)
- Piotr Szulkin's annotated script and storyboard gallery for Copyright Film Polski MCMLXXVI
- 20-page booklet featuring essays by Michał Oleszczyk and Tomasz Kolankiewicz