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.
Genres:
Carmelo Bene as The Protagonist
Lydia Mancinelli as Saint Margareth
Salvatore Siniscalchi as The Publisher
Anita Masini as Holy Mary / The Woman
Ornella Ferrari as The Maidservant
Vincenzo Musso as Man Running in the Street
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