{"id":14186,"date":"2013-08-21T02:34:05","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T01:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=14186"},"modified":"2025-09-20T19:22:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T18:22:31","slug":"liskas-golem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/08\/21\/liskas-golem\/","title":{"rendered":"Li\u0161ka’s Golem"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Last Golem from The Nights of Prague (1969).<\/em><\/p>\n

Since watching The Cremator<\/em> I’ve been listening to Zden\u011bk Li\u0161ka’s music from the early \u0160vankmajer films, and following leads to the composer’s other work. One film with a Li\u0161ka score that I’d not previously come across is Prazsk\u00e9 noci<\/em><\/a> (The Nights of Prague<\/em>, 1968), one of those anthology films there seemed to be so many of in the late 60s and early 70s. Of the four stories on the theme of Prague at night, Li\u0161ka provides the music for The Last Golem<\/em>, a tale of Rabbi Loew and the legendary Golem written and directed by Ji\u0159\u00ed Brde\u010dka. YouTube seems to have little more than this short clip<\/a> but it does at least give a flavour of the piece. As usual Li\u0161ka’s music is unmistakable, and as good as anything else he was doing in the 1960s. Seeing this makes me wish that Jan \u0160vankmajer had tried his hand at a Golem film when Li\u0161ka was still alive.<\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 The Cremator by Juraj Herz<\/a>
\n\u2022 Golem, 2012<\/a>
\n\u2022 More Golems<\/a>
\n\u2022 Das Haus zur letzten Latern<\/a>
\n\u2022 Hugo Steiner-Prag\u2019s Golem<\/a>
\n\u2022 Barta\u2019s Golem<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Last Golem from The Nights of Prague (1969). Since watching The Cremator I’ve been listening to Zden\u011bk Li\u0161ka’s music from the early \u0160vankmajer films, and following leads to the composer’s other work. One film with a Li\u0161ka score that I’d not previously come across is Prazsk\u00e9 noci (The Nights of Prague, 1968), one of … Continue reading “Li\u0161ka’s Golem”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,7,3],"tags":[402,375,5101,146,3985,5099],"class_list":["post-14186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-film","category-music","tag-golem","tag-jan-svankmajer","tag-jiri-brdecka","tag-prague","tag-rabbi-loew","tag-zdenek-liska"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-3GO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}