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Spider's Web is a Allemand film of genre Drama directed by Bernhard Wicki with Ulrich Mühe
Spider's Web (1989)
Das Spinnennetz
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Add to a movie listSpider's Web (German: Das Spinnennetz) is a 1989 West German film directed by Bernhard Wicki. It is based on the eponymous 1923 novel by Joseph Roth. It was chosen as West Germany's official submission to the 62nd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, but did not manage to receive a nomination. The film was the last ever submission by West Germany, due to German reunification in 1990, Germany competed at the 63rd Academy Awards as a single country.
The film was also entered into the 1989 Cannes Film Festival.
Synopsis
The film centers on young right-wing Leutnant (lieutenant) Theodor Lohse (Ulrich Mühe) who suffers personal and national humiliation during the downfall of the German Empire and the subsequent German Revolution of 1918 as the aftermath of World War I, from whence on he pledges revenge on all those he blames for the new times: Democrats, socialists, and Jews. Thus, he becomes increasingly active in the right-wing underground of the early Weimar Republic, joining an organization called "S II" (probably based on real-life Organisation Consul that was responsible for a number of political and anti-Semitic assassinations) where his immediate superior is Baron von Rastchuk (Armin Mueller-Stahl). Baron von Rastchuk brings Lohse in contact with Prince Heinrich in order to get Lohse employed, a favor for which the homosexual Prince demands one-time bodily obligingness from Lohse. In spite of his apparent shock and disgust, Lohse yields to the Prince out of his opportunism and willingness to please his superiors.Actors
Ulrich Mühe
(Theodor Lohse)
Klaus Maria Brandauer
(Benjamin Lenz)
Armin Mueller-Stahl
(Baron von Rastchuk)
Andrea Jonasson
(Rahel Efrussi)
Ullrich Haupt
(Baron von Köckwitz)
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