Spider's Web

The film begins at the end of 1918. Germany has come out of the war defeated. Theodor Lohse was a lieutenant in the imperial army. With the end of the war his world falls apart. The man looks for a way to rise again. His way runs through a far right secret society. The society puts him to use in its own affairs. Lohse recognises no limits at all. Meanwhile he gives private lessons in the house of a Jewish jeweller. He himself is an antisemite. The society sends him into an anarchist group. There he meets a man called Lenz. The two men are exact opposites. The film was adapted from a novel by Joseph Roth. Ulrich Mühe and Klaus Maria Brandauer take the leads in Bernhard Wicki’s German film of 1989.