The golden spider

Movie
Original title	The golden spider
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	1943
length	81 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6
Rod
Director	Erich Engels
script	Erich Engels Wolf new master Ulrich Vogel
music	Werner Eisbrenner
camera	Ernst Wilhelm Fiedler
occupation
Kirsten Heiberg : Agent Lisaweta, aka "Agnes Jordan" Harald Paulsen : Agent Smirnoff, alias "Petersen" Jutta Freybe : Company doctor Dr. Christa Fischer Otto Fee : Privy Councilor Fischer, Christa's father Liselott Schaak : Secretary of the Privy Council Rolf Weih : Engineer Axel Rüdiger Robert Bürkner : Dr. Eberding Werner Pledath : Director Heinsius Karl Dannemann : foreman boom Gerhard Dammann : factory porter Erich Dunskus : Foreman Hellmuth Passarge : entrance guard Ursula Voß : factory worker Gerti Gert : factory employee Hans Waschatko : company doctor Eduard Wenck : factory worker Ewald Wenck : Kneisler factory guard Anneliese Würtz : foreman Josef Sieber : Chauffeur Berger Jaspar von Oertzen : Captain Hartung Lutz Götz : Detective Vonhoff Hermann Brix : Detective Inspector Freise Ernst Schlott : Detective Secretary Zähringer Maly Delschaft : Rosa Sykora, head of the "Red Mill" Klaus Pohl : Ballet master of the "Red Mill" Conrad Cappi : Director of the "Red Mill" Wilhelm Bendow : Guest of the "Red Mill" Käte Jöken-König : Owner of the artist pension Traute Bengen : maid in the boarding house Franz Arzdorf : train control officer Bernhard Goetzke : Chief Medical Officer on the train Walter Steinweg : Wounded soldier

The Golden Spider is a Nazi spy film by Erich Engels from 1943.

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Two Soviet agents are dropped over Germany by parachute from a bomber plane. The spies first go to the “Rote Mühle” establishment, whose boss is forced through blackmail to present the agent Lisaweta as the singer “Agnes Jordan”. The aim of the mission is the Kattenbeck works, where a new and particularly powerful type of tank is being developed.

The agents try to find a suitable victim among the workers. After the soldierly correct captain could not be spied on, the ambitious and reckless engineer Axel Rüdiger, the right-hand man of the plant director, turned out to be the ideal victim. Rüdiger, who is actually engaged to the daughter of the director and company doctor Christa, goes on a rendezvous with the attractive agent. She uses one of these opportunities to copy secret documents from Rüdiger's briefcase. The agents are not satisfied with these documents and are now openly blackmailing the engineer into providing them with further secret plans for the tank, otherwise they would report him for betrayal. Rüdiger bows to the agent's blackmail and at night copies parts of the tank plans that he has obtained from the privy councilor's vault. When handling the plans, however, he made a few mistakes, whereupon the director and his colleagues became suspicious and called on the Gestapo . Rüdiger flies up, but can go underground in time. He is later picked up by the rural gendarmerie and shot by them when he tries to escape again. Due to her connection to Rüdiger, Christa is now also under suspicion of being involved in the espionage affair. At first she cannot dispel this suspicion during an interrogation by the Gestapo.

In the meantime, agent Agnes Jordan has successfully ensnared the widowed chauffeur of the Kattenbeck-Werke and, under the pretense of marriage intentions, got him to give her access to the factory premises and the shooting range. There she succeeds in collecting material samples of the armor steel. Since the plant management has repeatedly urged its employees to be vigilant against spies, the behavior of the agent - who is currently working at the plant - is gradually becoming apparent. The light is now also dawning for the chauffeur Berger, whereupon he reports to the security department with a bad conscience. While the authorities are alerted, the agent manages to escape at the last minute. Disguised as a nurse, she tries to escape to the east on a hospital train. There she is finally exposed and arrested. During her interrogation by the Gestapo, she tries to incriminate Christa, who is not involved.

Agent Petersen is hired as the last spy. Initially, he was able to gain access to the plant as a canteen representative. After killing the boss of the “Rote Mühle” in order to eliminate her as a confidante, Petersen ventures back to the Kattenbeck factory because of the last missing construction details. Finally, he can even penetrate into the production hall there and now tries to uncover the tank's secrets on his own. There is a dramatic showdown on the factory floor, with the agent ultimately fatally injured. With his last breath, he can make it clear that Christa Fischer has nothing to do with the espionage company.

Production and reception

The film was produced and distributed by Berlin-based Terra-Filmkunst GmbH . The German premiere took place on December 23, 1943. He was awarded the predicate "politically valuable" and "popular education".

After the end of the Second World War , the performance was banned by the high command of the Allied victorious powers . Today the evaluation rights are held by the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation .

See also

• List of German feature films premiered in the German Reich during the Nazi era
• List of German films banned under Allied military censorship

Web links

• The golden spider in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The golden spider at filmportal.de
• The golden spider at murnau-stiftung.de