Our Lady of the Turks

Release Date: 1968-09-03

Overview: 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.

Rating: 6.3 / 10

Cast

Carmelo Bene

as The Protagonist

Lydia Mancinelli

as Saint Margareth

Salvatore Siniscalchi

as The Publisher

Anita Masini

as Holy Mary / The Woman

Ornella Ferrari

as The Maidservant