The Black Spider ( Die schwarze Spinne )

The Black Spider (DVD) (*)

$63.99

Original Title: Die schwarze Spinne
Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
German ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Switzerland ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
100 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1983 and produced in:
Switzerland ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Mark M. Rissi

Written By:
Jeremias Gotthelf
Walther Kauer

Actors:
Beatrice Kessler
Walo Lüönd
Peter Ehrlich
Walter Hess
Hans-Joerg Bahl
René Bill
Sergio Catellani
Peter Fischli
Michael Gempart
Corinne Hirt
Peter Holliger
Benjamin Kradolfer
Walter Krumm
Peter Lüchinger
Rosali Nydegger
Sigmund Oberli
Henrik Rhyn
Peter Scheider
Hanna Scheuring
Sigfrit Steiner
Curt Truninger
Christine Wipf
Hans Wittwer

Synopsis:

***ATTENTION***Swiss-German audio with English & German subtitles***This film about a black spider that symbolizes evil works well when focusing on the old 19th century story by Jeremias Gotthelf. A group of drug addicts are doing without because of a crooked dealer and in desperation, they break into a chemical plant to get their hands on what they need, later escaping to temporary shelter in a farmhouse. While one woman trips out, she hallucinates the story of the black spider, set in the Emmental valley of Switzerland in the middle ages. At that time, a beautiful farmer's wife makes a pact with the devil: if he helps the men survive the excessive toil imposed by a tyrannical knight, she will give him a newborn baby. When the time comes to collect the child, the wife has the baby baptised right after birth, and the devil is foiled. In revenge, he sends a black spider into the village to spread pestilence and death.

Based on a story by Jeremias Gotthelf. Set in the middle ages in a small Swiss village ruled by a merciless knight. A woman makes a pact with the devil to help the villagers complete the tasks set by the knight, but when she breaks the pact a black spider appears spreading death and plague.

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