The Spider's Stratagem(Strategia del ragno)
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Italy · 1970
1h 40m
Director Bernardo Bertolucci
Starring Giulio Brogi, Alida Valli, Pippo Campanini, Franco Giovanelli
Genre Mystery, Drama
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Athos Magnani, a young researcher, returns to Tara, where his father was killed in 1936 in uncleared circumstances, before his birth. As the son untangles the web of lies the story of the assassination is constructed from, he finds himself ensnared in the same web.
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