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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.
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.
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.
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...
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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. Details: 1970, Italy, Cert PG, 102 mins. Direction: Bernardo Bertolucci. Summary: Early work by Bertolucci, derived from a Borges story, and dealing with a political...
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.
