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Our Lady of the Turks

Our Lady of the Turks

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Status

Released

Release Date

Sep 3, 1968

Runtime

2h 4m

Genres

Drama

User Score

65%

Original Title

Nostra signora dei turchi

Production Companies

Patara

Director

Carmelo Bene

Description

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.