The Spider's Stratagem
1970 · 100 MIN · IMDB 6.9 · 3,281 VOTES · DIR. Bernardo Bertolucci
Overview
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 815 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:11 THE SPIDER'S STRATAGEM
00:09:02 Your father's murderer is someone from Tara, someone from here.
00:11:17 He died before seeing the liberation he dreamed of.
00:13:16 I like it a lot.
00:17:11 Open up!
00:20:41 With a MN plate?
00:23:49 A theatre owner, a teacher, and a culatelli taster.
00:27:40 There! Smell the sommé? - Yes.
00:30:03 we were the only ones who tried to..
00:35:59 You're Glad? Have you gone crazy?
00:39:04 won't do.
00:41:24 Midnight...
00:44:05 That way, by the theatre. Milan must be after Mantua.
00:47:47 It's a bad strain, you know?
00:52:21 Lady?
00:57:37 He looks at us as he did back then!
01:00:59 you'd better confess that you killed Athos Magnani.
01:07:05 unfortunately.
01:11:34 I was in Mantua. He had sent me there.
01:18:44 It's in the darkness of the theatre that they shot him.
01:23:26 All I ask, is to take me to a high place.
01:26:30 The warning of death, the motorcyclist in black...
01:28:54 "Young man, where will you go with no ticket you can show?"
01:31:50 It happens. Sometimes they even forget we exist.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed815
Dialogue density8.2 lines / min
First line00:00:11
Final line01:31:50
Production Record
DirectorBernardo Bertolucci
LanguageItalian
IMDb votes3,281