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Our Lady of the Turks (1968)

Our Lady of the Turks (1968)

Drama
Release Date: 1968, September 3
Directors: Carmelo Bene
Countries: Italy
Production: Patara
Cast: Carmelo Bene, Lydia Mancinelli, Ornella Ferrari, Salvatore Siniscalchi, Anita Masini, Vincenzo Musso

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.