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The well known Prague legend of the Golem may be the main subject of our movie, but it is by no means a mere adaptation of the classic story of the times of Emperor Rudolf II, Rabi Loewe, and the clay giant. Our story is based on a following legend of a curious student, who violated the prohibited entry of the Old-New Synagogue and brought to life the sleeping Golem through a Shem described in ancient books. By so doing he unleashed the energy of the Golem, without being able to stop it. The Golem grew enormously and buried the student.

We adapted the original, rather brief legend, into a feature-length movie taking place in contemporary Prague (2013). The math student Adam Hofman finds a large clay puppet in an old deserted hotel which he at first considers to be the Golem of Rabi Loewe. Together with his friend Jenny, he accidentally brings it back to life, thereby opening a Pandora's Box and initiating a series of  tragicomic events.

In a similar manner to the well-known Old Prague legend, in which the Golem goes crazy and turns against his creator and master, our obedient hotel servant turns into a dangerous monster  - a counter GOLEM -  a negative MELOG. The puppet grows into an enormous size, consolidates his power and in the capacity of a new director and owner of the hotel "Melog", he disseminates "the clay totalitarian ideology". He pours false illusions and fanaticism into Prague's city streets not only by producing demagogic slogans and symbols, but also in a more visible way - by spreading "clay epidemic" which gradually turns objects, streets and houses into a shapeless clay substance.

Adam's clay dream finishes with an escape from his  prison and a dramatic rise into the higher storeys of the collapsing hotel where, under strange and rather comic circumstances, he fights with the hotel director himself - the sovereign, doctor Melog. This is, however, not the noble fight with a dangerous creature threatening his life, but a fight with a sick derelict, who finally collapses, taking his megalomaniacal dream along with him. It falls into pieces, turned by the falling rain into thin mud and runs down the drain. The same way the nightmarish totalitarian regimes of the 20^th century disappeared.