Our Lady of the Turks

Being a saint means losing control

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.

• Release date
• September 3, 1968
• Runtime
• 124 min
• Genres
• Fantasy, Drama
• Director
• Carmelo Bene

Cast

Carmelo Bene The Protagonist Lydia Mancinelli Saint Margareth

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Salvatore Siniscalchi The Publisher

A

Anita Masini Holy Mary / The Woman

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Ornella Ferrari The Maidservant

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Vincenzo Musso Man Running in the Street