• Sunday, Dec 30, 2018

    4:45 PM (100 mins)
    BAMPFA

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The Spiders, Part 2: The Diamond Ship

(Die Spinnen, 2. Teil—Das Brillantenschiff)

(The Adventures of Kay Hoog in Worlds Known and Unknown)

Fritz Lang
Germany, 1919
  • Judith Rosenberg
    On Piano
    Judith Rosenberg
featuring

Carl de Vogt, Ressel Orla, Lil Dagover,

This second installment of The Spiders continues the characters’ continent-crossing pursuit of a diamond-shaped head of Buddha that is supposed to make the woman who wears it ruler of Asia. Lang indulges in the exotic and creates mysterious, labyrinthine architectural sets, with caves, underground chambers, and vaults serving The Spiders as clandestine meeting places.

Susan Oxtoby
FILM DETAILS 

Screenwriter

  • Fritz Lang

Cinematographer

  • Emil Schünemann
  • Karl Freund

Language

  • Silent
  • with German intertitles and English e-titling

Print Info

  • B&W/Tinted
  • Digital
  • 100 mins