Tarantism Revisited
Movie| Title | Tarantism Revisited |
| User score | 0 |
| Release date | Oct 29, 2024 |
| Genre | Documentary |
| Director | Anja Dreschke , Michaela Schäuble |
| Production country | Germany, Switzerland |
| Production companies | EMB – Ethnographic Mediaspace Bern, Petit à Petit Cologne |
| Run time | 105 min. |
Apulia, 1959: Women in white dresses dance ecstatically in a small chapel. They jump around, roll on the ground, some even climb the altar. They are said to have been bitten by a spider. Their dancing mania requires a ritual exorcism with music. Pictures like these inspired Italian anthropologists to travel to southern Italy. Equipped with tape recorders, film and photo cameras, they tracked down the phenomenon of tarantism.
