World Mystery Films — THE SPIDER'S STRATAGEM (Italian, 1970)

Date and Time
September 22, 2011
Event Details

BROMO AND JULIET, b&w, silent, 22 minutes, 1926, starring Charlie Chase.

THE SPIDER’S STRATAGEM, color, 97 minutes. Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970. In Italian with English subtitles. Based on the story Theme of the Traitor and the Hero by Jorge Luis Borges. Starring Giulio Brogi, Alida Vaklli, Pippo Campanini.

A young man revisits the village in the Po Valley where his father was murdered by the Fascists in 1936 during a performance of Rigoletto. Encountering hostility from the townspeople, his quest becomes entangled in a web of mystery, where the lines between history and fiction, the traitor and the hero, become blurred.

ADMISSION FREE