Our Lady of the Turks (1968)

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.

Released

1968-09-03

Genres

Fantasy, Drama

Runtime

124 min

Status

Released

Directed / written by

Carmelo Bene

TMDB rating

6.6/10 from 34 votes