Year: 1970
Runtime: 100 mins
Language: Italian
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Returning to his rural hometown, a young man sets out to uncover the murky details of his father's death—officially blamed on Fascists in 1936, before the son was born. As he pieces together a tangled network of deception that permeates the entire community, he becomes caught in the very web he is trying to expose.
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