Treasures from the National Film Archive 2007 / Die Spinnen II (Das Brillantenschiff) / Germany 1920
Having eliminated her rival, the criminal Lio Sha spins a web of intrigue together with her other “Spiders”, in a plot to abduct the daughter of John Terry, the “King of the Diamonds”. Kay Hoog, on the trail of a unique diamond, discovers that it is located on the Falkland Islands, and so he sets out to find it – with the “Spiders” on his heels...
Fritz Lang embarked upon the second part of The Spiders knowing that there was not enough money to make the originally planned four-part series, thus he had to compress the plot of his novel of the same name and come up with a denouement at the end of the second film. Having eliminated her rival, the criminal Lio Sha spins a web of intrigue together with her other “Spiders”, in order to abduct the daughter of John Terry, the “King of the Diamonds”. Adventurer Kay Hoog, on the trail of a unique diamond, discovers that it is located on the Falkland Islands, and so he sets out to find it – with the “Spiders” on his heels... Unlike the first part, the sequel, The Diamond Ship, has survived almost intact.
90 min / Color, 35 mm
Director Fritz Lang
/ Screenplay Fritz Lang
/ Dir. of Photography Karl Freud, Emil Schünemann
/ Producer Erich Pommer
/ Production Decla – Bioscop
/ Cast Lil Dagover, Carl de Vogt, Ressel Orla, Georg John, Rudolf Lettinger, Thea Zander
Blažena Urgošíková
Film Institution Rep.
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