''The White Spider'' (German: ''Die weiße Spinne'') is a 1927 German

silent film A silent film is a film with no synchronized Sound recording and reproduction, recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) ...

directed by

Carl Boese Carl Eduard Hermann Boese (; 26 August 1887 – 6 July 1958) was a German film director, screenwriter, and film producer, producer. He directed 158 films between 1917 and 1957. Selected filmography * ''Farmer Borchardt'' (1917) * ''Donna Lucia ...

and starring Maria Paudler,

Walter Rilla Walter Rilla (22 August 1894 – 21 November 1980) was a German film actor of Jewish descent.Siegbert Salomon Prawer, ''Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933'', Berghahn Books (2007), pg. 213 He appea ...

and John Loder.Giesen, Rolf. ''Special Effects Artists: A Worldwide Biographical Dictionary of the Pre-digital Era with a Filmography''. McFarland & Company, 2008. p. 113. . The film's sets were designed by Uwe Jens Krafft.

Cast

* Maria Paudler as Miß Brown *

as Lord Barrymore * John Loder as Lord Gray *Nien Soen Ling as Diener bei Miß Brown *

Kurt Gerron Kurt Gerron (11 May 1897 – 28 October 1944) was a German Jewish actor and film director. He and his wife, Olga were murdered in the Holocaust. Life Born Kurt Gerson into a well-off merchant family in Berlin, he studied medicine before being ca ...

Wolfgang Zilzer Wolfgang Zilzer (January 20, 1901 – June 26, 1991) was a German-American stage and film actor, often under the stage name Paul Andor. Biography Zilzer was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to German-Jewish emigrant Max Zilzer, who was employed at the ...

as Diener bei Lord Barrymore *Iris Arlan * Uwe Jens Krafft as Der Polizeipräsident

References

External links

* Films of the Weimar Republic Films directed by Carl Boese German silent feature films German black-and-white films Phoebus Film films {{Germany-silent-film-stub