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.
dentista Miroslav Hruška
Marie, Hruškova žena
poručík SNB Oldřich Valta
Irena
barman Charlie
Mariina babička
staršina VB Čermák
bývalý továrník Halouzka
MUDr. Fischer
ošetřovatelka
příslušník SS s batohem
příslušník SS z nákladního auta
příslušník SS na nákladním autě
vyslýchající gardista
vyslýchající gardista
pacientka u Hrušky
montér
pacient
modistka
strýc Karel
teta
domovnice
opilý host
opilý host Karlíček
opilý host
opilý host
hradlař na trati
strýček
občan
zubní lékař MUDr. J. Novák, odvedený kolaborant
žena v davu
Milada Řeháková
Alena Nová, Jiří Mařas
dr. Vavro Oravec, kpt. Jaromír Malý
FISYO (Music Conducted by Štěpán Koníček), Orchestr Karla Vlacha (Music Conducted by Karel Vlach)
Zlatý pavouk
Zlatý pavouk
The Golden Spider
film
featuretheatrical distribution
drama
Czechoslovakia
1956
1956
projection approval 21 December 1956
withdrawal from distribution 1 April 1966
premiere 22 February 1957 /unsuitable for youths/ (kina Jalta /7 týdnů/, Bystrica /1 týden/, Svornost /1 týden od 1. 3./, Oko /1 týden od 8. 3./, Arbes /1 týden od 15. 3./, Aero /1 týden od 22. 3./ a Mír /1 týden od 29. 3./, Praha)
Tvůrčí skupina Feix – Daniel, František Daniel (vedoucí dramaturg tvůrčí skupiny), Karel Feix (vedoucí výroby tvůrčí skupiny)
feature film
77 min
2 195 meters
16mm, 35mm
1:1,37
black & white
sound
mono
Czech
Czech
without subtitles
Czech