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THE SPIDER'S STRATAGEM

Strategia del ragno

Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
Italy, 1970
Mystery, Drama
  • 100100 minutes

Synopsis

Athos Magnani, a young researcher, returns to Tara, where his father was killed before his birth, at the request of Draifa. The father, also named Athos Magnani and looking exactly like the son, was killed by a fascist in 1936 — or so says Draifa, he town statue, and everyone in town.

Synopsis

Athos Magnani, a young researcher, returns to Tara, where his father was killed before his birth, at the request of Draifa. The father, also named Athos Magnani and looking exactly like the son, was killed by a fascist in 1936 — or so says Draifa, he town statue, and everyone in town.