Our Lady of the Turks

Synopsis

To the protagonist, an intellectual so feverish that he seems pathologically unrecoverable, a confused memory resurfaces of a massacre carried out by the Turks in Otranto. Immersing himself in one of the victims, in the unconscious desire to eviscerate himself, a woman appears to him, Margherita, who, in the guise of Santa Maria d'Otranto, treats him with compassionate love. In the hallucinating succession of memories intertwined with historical events, the protagonist finds himself in contact with his environment, his land, his country.

Top cast

Carmelo Bene

The Protagonist

Lydia Mancinelli

Saint Margareth

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Salvatore Siniscalchi

The Publisher

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Anita Masini

Holy Mary / The Woman

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Ornella Ferrari

The Maidservant