The Golem was David Garrison Productions' first film shot internationally. Based on the story's lineage, Prague was a must have. German filmmaker Paul Wegener shot both The Golem (1915) and  The Golem, How he Came Into the World(1920) in Prague, the City of a Thousand Spires.  (His second of the Golem trilogy, The Golem and the Dancing Girl, was photographed in Germany.) But more importantly, the expressionist master's nephew felt it imperative to shoot in the settings of the Jewish legend's home. 

                                  The Maharal, Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel is reputed to                                   have created the protector from the mud of the Vltava                                       River in Prague. The creature's remains were hidden in                                       the attic of the Loew's Old/New Synagogue, also in                                           Prague.