La Strategia del Ragno (1970)
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Originally produced for Italian television, Bernardo Bertolucci's The Spider's Stratagem (La Strategia del Ragno) can be regarded as a cinematic tone poem. Adapted from a Jorge Luis Borges short story, the film stars Giulio Brogi as a young Italian who returns to his ancestral home -- the place where his anti-fascist father was assassinated, a long-ago incident that still disturbs the populace. Cold-shouldered by everyone in town, the young man tries to find out why everyone is so hostile towards him; after all, was not his father a hero of the people? In some (but not all) ways, The Spider's Stratagem is a precursor to Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris, delineating the correlation between sex and political ideology. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Giulio Brogi, Alida Valli, (more)
- Director(s):
- Bernardo Bertolucci
Synopsis of La Strategia del Ragno
Originally produced for Italian television, Bernardo Bertolucci's The Spider's Stratagem (La Strategia del Ragno) can be regarded as a cinematic tone poem. Adapted from a Jorge Luis Borges short story, the film stars Giulio Brogi as a young Italian who returns to his ancestral home -- the place where his anti-fascist father was assassinated, a long-ago incident that still disturbs the populace. Cold-shouldered by everyone in town, the young man tries to find out why everyone is so hostile towards him; after all, was not his father a hero of the people? In some (but not all) ways, The Spider's Stratagem is a precursor to Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris, delineating the correlation between sex and political ideology. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of La Strategia del Ragno
- Giulio Brogi - Athos Magnani, father and son
- Tino Scotti - Costa
- Alida Valli - Draifa
- Allen Midgette - Sailor
- Director(s):
- Bernardo Bertolucci
- Writer(s):
- Bernardo Bertolucci, Eduardo de Gregorio
- Producer(s):
- Giovanni Bertolucci
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