The Golden Spider

{{Short description|1943 film}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}} {{Infobox film |name = The Golden Spider |image =File:The Golden Spider.jpg |caption = |native_name = {{Infobox name module|de|Die goldene Spinne}} |director = [[Erich Engels]] |producer = [[Eduard Kubat]] |writer = {{ubl|[[Erich Ebermayer]]|Erich Engels|[[Wolf Neumeister]]|Ulrich Vogel}} |starring = {{ubl|[[Kirsten Heiberg]]|[[Jutta Freybe]]|[[Harald Paulsen]]|[[Otto Gebühr]]}} |music = [[Werner Eisbrenner]] |cinematography = [[E.W. Fiedler]] |editing = [[René Métain]] |studio = [[Terra Film]] |distributor = Deutsche Filmvertriebs |released = {{Film date|1943|12|23|df=yes}} |runtime = 88 minutes |country = Germany |language = German }} '''''The Golden Spider''''' ({{langx|de|'''Die goldene Spinne'''}}) is a 1943 German [[thriller film]] directed by [[Erich Engels]] and starring [[Kirsten Heiberg]], [[Jutta Freybe]], and [[Harald Paulsen]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Giesen|first=Rolf|title=Nazi Propaganda Films: A History and Filmography|publisher=[[McFarland & Company]]|orig-year=2003|year=2008|location=Jefferson, NC|page=197|isbn=978-0786438709}}</ref> It was partly shot in [[Amsterdam]]. The film's sets were designed by the [[art director]]s [[Franz Bi]] and [[Bruno Lutz]].

==Cast== <small>In alphabetical order</small> {{Cast listing| *[[Franz Arzdorf]] as train control inspector *[[Wilhelm Bendow]] as the shameful guest of the "Red Mill" *Traute Bengen as Das Mädchen der Pension "Riemer" *[[Hermann Brix]] as Detective Commissioner Freise *Robert Bürkner as Dr. Eberding of the Kattenbeck-Werke *{{Ill|Conrad Cappi|de}} as the manager of the "Red Mill" *[[Gerhard Dammann]] as doorman *[[Karl Dannemann]] as Bumm, foreman *[[Maly Delschaft]] as Rosa Sykora, Director of "Roten Mühle" *[[Erich Dunskus]] as foreman of the Kattenbeck-Werke *[[Jutta Freybe]] as Christa Fischer, family doctor *[[Otto Gebühr]] as Geheimrat Fischer, Director of Kattenbeck-Werke *Gerdi Gerdt as an employee at Kattenbeck-Werke *[[Bernhard Goetzke]] as the senior staff doctor on the train *[[Lutz Götz]] as Kriminalrat Vonhoff *[[Kirsten Heiberg]] as Lisaweta, Agent, alias Agnes Jordan, cabaret singer *{{Ill|Käte Jöken-König|es|Käte Jöken-König|de}} as the owner der Künstlerpension "Riemer" *[[Paul Mederow]] *{{Ill|Hellmuth Passarge|de}} as the entrance guard at the Kattenbeck-Werke *[[Harald Paulsen]] as Smirnoff / Petersen, Agent *[[Hermann Pfeiffer (actor)|Hermann Pfeiffer]] *[[Werner Pledath]] as Heinsius, ein Direktor der Kattenbeck-Werke *[[Klaus Pohl (actor)|Klaus Pohl]] as the Ballet master at the "Red Mill" *Claire Reigbert *[[Liselotte Schaak]] as Fräulein von Holleben, secretary of the Privy Council *{{Ill|Ernst Schlott|de}} as criminal secretary Zähringer *[[Josef Sieber]] as Berger, Chauffeur at the Kattenbeck-Werke *{{Ill|Walter Steinweg|de}} as a disabled soldier at the train station *[[Jaspar von Oertzen]] as Kneisler, the guard at the factory entrance gate *{{Ill|Ursula Voß|de}} as a worker at Kattenbeck-Werke *[[Rolf Weih]] as Axel Rüdiger, engineer, fiancé of Christa Fischer *{{Ill|Eduard Wenck|de}} as a factory worker *[[Ewald Wenck]] as Kneisler, the guard at the factory entrance gate *{{Ill|Anneliese Würtz|de|Anneliese Würtz|fr}} as Mrs. Mieger, forewoman at the plant }}

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== *{{IMDb title|0130739}}

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