Overview
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.
Director: Carmelo Bene
Cast
Carmelo Bene
The Protagonist
Lydia Mancinelli
Saint Margareth
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Salvatore Siniscalchi
The Publisher
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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
