''The Black Spider'' (german: Die schwarze Spinne) is a 1921

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silent

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directed by

Siegfried Philippi Siegfried Philippi, born Siegfried Salomon Philipp (31 July 1871 – 29 February 1936) was a German screenwriter and film director.Grange p.217 Selected filmography * '' Mountain Air'' (1917) * '' Madeleine'' (1919) * ''Dancer of Death'' (1920) ...

and starring

Olga Engl Olga Engl (30 May 1871 – 21 September 1946) was an Austrian-German stage and motion picture actress who appeared in nearly 200 films. Biography Engl was privately educated in an Ursuline monastery and began her acting career at the Prague Co ...

Hugo Flink Hugo Flink (16 August 1879 – 2 May 1947) was an Austrian stage and film actor. Flink was one of the earliest actors to play Sherlock Holmes on screen. Flink was born in Vienna and died in Berlin. Selected filmography * '' The Onyx Head'' (1 ...

, and

Charles Willy Kayser Charles Willy Kayser (28 January 1881 – 10 July 1942) was a German film actor. He was born in Metz, Lorraine, Germany (now, Moselle, France) and died at the age of 61 in 1942. Selected filmography * ''Anita Jo'' (1919) * '' The Clan'' (1920) ...

. It is based on the novella ''

The Black Spider ''The Black Spider'' is a novella by the Swiss writer Jeremias Gotthelf written in 1842. Set in an idyllic frame story, old legends are worked into a Christian-humanist allegory about ideas of good and evil. Though the novel is initially divide ...

'' by

Jeremias Gotthelf Albert Bitzius (4 October 179722 October 1854) was a Swiss novelist; best known by his pen name of Jeremias Gotthelf. Biography Bitzius was born at Murten, where his father was pastor. The Bitzius family had once belonged to the Bernese patrici ...

. It premiered in

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on 8 August 1921.

Cast

In alphabetical order *

Rudolf Klein-Rhoden Rudolf Klein-Rhoden (27 January 1871 – 5 January 1936) was a German stage and film actor. Selected filmography * '' Madeleine'' (1919) * '' Sins of the Parents'' (1919) * '' Intoxication'' (1919) * '' Prostitution'' (1919) * ''Indische Nächte'' ...

*Marga Köhler *Lissi Lind *

Max Ruhbeck Max Ruhbeck (1 September 1858 – 2 November 1945) was a German actor. He appeared in more than ninety films from 1915 to 1923. Selected filmography References External links * 1858 births 1945 deaths German male stage actors Germ ...

*Joseph Römer *Ortrud Wagner

References

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* Films of the Weimar Republic German silent feature films German horror films Films directed by Siegfried Philippi 1921 horror films German black-and-white films Adaptations of works by Jeremias Gotthelf Silent horror films 1920s German films {{Germany-silent-film-stub