Our Lady of the Turks
(1968)
★ 6.6 IMDb · 34 votes
Year: 1968
Runtime: 124 мин
Country: Italy
Director: Carmelo Bene
Cast: Carmelo Bene, Lydia Mancinelli, Salvatore Siniscalchi, Anita Masini, Ornella Ferrari, Vincenzo Musso
Plot
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.