Our Lady of the Turks

Nostra Signora dei Turchi
Our Lady of the Turks
Directed byCarmelo Bene
Written byCarmelo Bene (play and screenplay)
Produced byCarmelo Bene
StarringCarmelo Bene and Lydia Mancinelli
CinematographyMario Masini
Edited byMauro Contini
Music byCarmelo Bene (from Modest Mussorgsky and Stanislao Gastaldon)
Release date
  • 1968 (1968)
Running time
125 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

Nostra Signora dei Turchi (internationally released as Our Lady of the Turks) is a 1968 Italian drama film. It is the feature film debut of Carmelo Bene and it is based on a stage play by the same Bene.[1] It won the Special Jury Prize at the 1968 Venice Film Festival.[2]

The film was shown as part of a retrospective "Questi fantasmi: Cinema italiano ritrovato" at the 65th Venice International Film Festival.[3]

  1. ^ Roberto Poppi, Mario Pecorari. Dizionario del cinema italiano. I film. Gremese Editore, 2007. ISBN 8884405033.
  2. ^ Enrico Lancia. I premi del cinema. Gremese Editore, 1998. ISBN 8877422211.
  3. ^ Simone Pinchiorri (28 July 2008). "Mostra di Venezia 2008: "Questi Fantasmi: Cinema Italiano Ritrovato (1946 – 1975)"". CinemaItaliano. Retrieved 18 April 2013.

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