Our Lady of the Turks (1968)

Plot Summary

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.

Full Cast & Characters

Carmelo Bene

The Protagonist

Lydia Mancinelli

Saint Margareth

Salvatore Siniscalchi

The Publisher

Anita Masini

Holy Mary / The Woman

Ornella Ferrari

The Maidservant

Vincenzo Musso

Man Running in the Street

Director & Crew

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