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The Spider's Stratagem (Italian: Strategia del ragno) is a 1970 Italian made-for-television political mystery-drama film written and directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and produced by RAI. The screenplay is based on the 1944 short story Theme of the Traitor and the Hero by Jorge Luis Borges.
- Political Drama Mystery
Mar 27, 1973 · The Spider's Stratagem: Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. With Giulio Brogi, Alida Valli, Pippo Campanini, Franco Giovanelli. A man returns to the place where his father was murdered and tries to find closure. But he finds himself in a similar predicament as his late father instead.
- (3.2K)
- Drama, Mystery
- Bernardo Bertolucci
- 1973-03-27
The Spider's Stratagem. Roger Ebert January 01, 1970. Tweet. Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. [EDITOR'S NOTE: This review contains spoilers.] Thirty years before, Athos Magnani was a great man, a popular hero, and the leading anti-fascist in the district.
The Spider’s Stratagem is a film built around confronting the ambiguity of history, the demystification of the heroic figures of middle-class anti-fascist fathers, the discovery that nights on the Po Plain have a blue light like Magritte’s nights, the heroic sound recording microphones besieged by the Po’s enormous mosquitoes, the ...
The Spider's Stratagem | Rotten Tomatoes. 1970 1h 40m Mystery & Thriller. List. In Italy, Athos Magnani (Giulio Brogi) is the son of an anti-fascist hero who was assassinated three decades...
- (13)
- Giulio Brogi
- Bernardo Bertolucci
- Mystery & Thriller
A young man returns to his countryside hometown to investigate the unclear circumstances behind the death of his father, ostensibly killed by Fascists in 1936, before his birth. As he unravels a web of lies that seems to encompass the whole town, he finds himself entangled in the same web.
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Hundreds of actors, all of the people of Tara will be part of it, without knowing it. All Tara will become one big theater. Athos Magnani arrives by train alone in Tara, where his father’s old mistress Draifa has asked him to come and find out the truth about his father’s murder years ago in 1936.
