The Spider's Stratagem

Mystery, Drama

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Bernardo Bertolucci

Status Released

Release Date 1970-09-17

Storyline

A young man returns to his countryside hometown to investigate the unclear circumstances behind the death of his father, ostensibly killed by Fascists in 1936, before his birth. As he unravels a web of lies that seems to encompass the whole town, he finds himself entangled in the same web.