A Virgin Named Mary (1975)

Plot Summary

A second coming? This time our savior chose a shantytown outside Turin, in the north of Italy, overcrowded by poor families coming from the south in search of a job in a factory, or less legal ways to survive. Young Maria (Cinzia De Carolis) can predict the future during her epileptic seizures, or at least that's what everyone believes, and her mother (Clelia Matania) sells her predictions and responses to the superstitious neighbors, after inducing her "trance" with electricity. One night the shock is too strong, and Maria seems to die: when she wakes up, she is found pregnant. And being a honest unmarried girl from the south, she is obviously still virgin... Notwithstanding the opposition of the local priest (Turi Ferro), everyone, including her, believes in the miracle, and prepares for a second coming, in a crescendo of fanaticism that is soon noticed by the press, and by the official church..

Full Cast & Characters

Turi Ferro

Don Vito

Andréa Ferréol

Maddalena

Alvaro Vitali

Rocco

Renato Pinciroli

Giuseppe

Leopoldo Trieste

Nicola

Enzo Cannavale

Simone

Jean Louis

Luca

Tino Carraro

Il vescovo

Giampiero Vinciguerra

Prospero

Dada Gallotti

Giorgio Iovine

Giorgio Iovine

Nicola Di Pinto

Director & Crew

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