The Golden Spider
Typology
featureCzech title
Zlatý pavoukRuntime
77Country
CzechoslovakiaCopyright
1956Production year
1956Premiere
22.02.1957Language version
CzechDirector
Pavel BlumenfeldSynopsis
May 1945. A truck packed with prisoners liberated from a concentration camp arrives at a North-Bohemian city. The local Miroslav Hruška recognizes his old friend Oldřich Valta among the people in the truck. However, armed SS-men are hiding among the prisoners. The truck stops, the prisoners run off in disarray, there is an exchange of fire. Hruška neutralizes the German soldiers with a grenade. In a deserted attic, one of the shot Germans leaves behind a rucksack with gold jewellery stolen from the prisoners. Hruška finds the rucksack and keeps it. In 1948, Hruška is a wealthy dentist running a luxurious surgery. He marries the young naive Marie. He sells part of the gold to the then-manufacturer Halouzka who is later shot while illegally crossing the border. Valta, now an investigator in the police corps, arrives to the town with the aim of revealing the source of Halouzka's gold. He stays at Hruška's, but is surprised to find that the trail leads to his friend. Marie receives a golden locket in the shape of a small spider from her husband. Her doctor tells her that his wife who died in the concentration camp wore the same locket. Marie tells this to her husband and is shocked by his furious reaction. The dentist tries to flee, but is caught in the act and arrested.
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Cast
Robert Vrchota
dentista Miroslav Hruška
Jana Brejchová
Marie, Hruškova manželka
Josef Bek
poručík SNB Oldřich Valta
Květa Fialová
Irena
Oldřich Nový
barman Charlie
Jarmila Kurandová
Mariina babička
Rudolf Deyl ml.
staršina VB Čermák
Martin Růžek
bývalý továrník Halouzka
Walter Taub
MUDr. Fischer
Věra Kalendová
ošetřovatelka
František Marek
příslušník SS s batohem
Bohuslav Ličman
příslušník SS
Rudolf Široký
vyslýchající gardista
Jan Víšek
vyslýchající gardista
Gabriela Bártlová-Buddeusová
pacientka u Hrušky
Raoul Schránil
montér
Ota Motyčka
pacient
Anna Gabrielová
modistka
Arnošt Faltýnek
strýc Karel
Pavla Maršálková
teta
Marie Nademlejnská
domovnice
Josef Šidlichovský
opilý host
Martin Raus
opilý host Karlíček
Karel Šott ml.
opilý host
Stanislav Strnad (herec)
opilý host
J. O. Martin
hradlař na trati
Václav Švec
strýček
Vítězslav Černý
občan
Viktor Očásek
zubař Novák, vyhazovaný kolaborant
Blažena Slavíčková
žena v davu
Vladimír Majer
příslušník SS na nákladním autě
J. Koutná
Crew and creators
Director
Second Unit Director
Milada Řeháková
Assistant Director
Alena Nová, Jiří Mařas
Screenstory
Screenplay
Camera
Second Unit Photography
Camera Operator
Production Designer
Set Designer
Costume Designer
Costumes
Make-Up Artist
Film Editor
Sound Designer
Production Manager
Unit Production Manager
Consultant
dr. Vavro Oravec, kpt. Jaromír Malý
Cooperation
Music
Music Composed by
Music Performed by
Music Conducted by
Štěpán Koníček (FISYO), Karel Vlach (Orchestr Karla Vlacha)
Production info
Original Title
Zlatý pavouk
English Title
The Golden Spider
Copyright
1956
Production Year
1956
Premiere
22.02.1957
Production
Copyright Holders
Distribution
Creative Group
Feix – Daniel, František Daniel, Karel Feix
Technical info
Versions
Czech