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"The Spider's Stratagem"
1970
Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci
The breakthrough film
of Bertolucci is an extremely atmospheric puzzler, based on a short story by Jorge Luis
Borges. A young man visits the provincial town where his anti-Fascist father was
assassinated 30 years earlier, and is rejected by the populace at every turn. With Giulio
Brogi and Alida Valli, and beautiful cinematography by Vittorio Storaro. Italian with
English subtitles.
97 minutes.

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