The Black Spider (1983)
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| Original title | The black spider |
| Country of production | Switzerland |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1983 |
| length | 98 minutes |
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| Director | Mark Rissi |
| script | Walther Kauer |
| production |
Eduard Steiner , Claude M. Beck |
| music | Carlos Perón , Véronique Müller |
| camera | Edwin Horak |
| cut | Evelyne von Rabenau |
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The Black Spider is a Swiss feature film from 1983 directed by Mark Rissi . Rissi's film was the seventh most successful Swiss feature film of the 1980s.
action
Four drug addicts are waiting for material. Your supplier is tricked by dealers and cheated of money and material. In the city, however, the drug scene has been unsettled by police raids. The usual drug hubs no longer work. So the five youngsters develop the plan to break into the laboratory of a chemical factory. The daring venture succeeds, but leads to a catastrophe. A violent explosion is caused by the intruders' carelessness and a poison cloud pollutes the area. When the young fixers attack the Hornbach farmer in order to rob him, the disaster takes on completely eerie features. Unsuspectingly, the young people set free the "black spider", the plague curse that the old farmer was keeping. As in hallucinations, the carousel of a dance of death now begins for the drug addict. One of the girls takes the golden shot. The other youngsters are delusionalized by a medieval past in which Satan himself has a hand in it.
backgrounds
The film is based on the novella The Black Spider by Jeremias Gotthelf . Rissi used the creepy classic of the bruised devil, who incites the plague in the form of a spider on people as punishment, as a parable for a present shaken by environmental scandals and drug misery.
Contributors
Important actors include Beatrice Kessler, Walo Lüönd, Henrik Rhyn, Peter Ehrlich and Sigfrit Steiner. The score is by Carlos Perón , Franz Liszt and Véronique Muller. Edith Roth designed the costumes .
criticism
The film service found: “Environmental hazards and drug addiction form the framework for a historical costume film based on the classic novella. Clichés and a lack of depth of field in the ostensible, currently sloppy criticism take away the substance of the story. "
literature
- Jeremias Gotthelf: The black spider . With a comment by Michael Masanetz . Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2007, 171 pages, ISBN 978-3-518-18879-8 or ISBN 3-518-18879-8
Web links
- The black spider in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Black Spider 1983 film portrait on cyranos.ch
- October 20, 1955: Sutermeister's “Black Spider” on the screen PDF file at srf.ch
Individual evidence
- ^ The 500 most successful Swiss films Federal Statistical Office.
- ^ The Black Spider in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed April 14, 2012