Flavia the Heretic (1974)
(Flavia, la monaca musulmana)
Country: IT/FR
Technical: Technicolor 101m
Director: Gianfranco Mingozzi
Cast: Florinda Bolkan, María Casares, Claudio Cassinelli, Anthony Higgins
Synopsis:
In 15th century Italy, when members of the Tarantula cult desecrate her convent, a coerced nun decides to flee the cloistered life, becoming the companion first of a Jew, and then of a marauding muslim leader. Whereupon she sets out on her revenge.
Review:
Inspired by the martyrdom of 800 at Otranto, this lurid tale has pretensions to being a polemic around the dire lot of women in the middle ages, while marketing itself as a Devils-style piece of exploitation. It falls hopelessly between two stools, not helped by dubbing, zooms and haphazard plotting.
(Flavia, la monaca musulmana)
Country: IT/FR
Technical: Technicolor 101m
Director: Gianfranco Mingozzi
Cast: Florinda Bolkan, María Casares, Claudio Cassinelli, Anthony Higgins
Synopsis:
In 15th century Italy, when members of the Tarantula cult desecrate her convent, a coerced nun decides to flee the cloistered life, becoming the companion first of a Jew, and then of a marauding muslim leader. Whereupon she sets out on her revenge.
Review:
Inspired by the martyrdom of 800 at Otranto, this lurid tale has pretensions to being a polemic around the dire lot of women in the middle ages, while marketing itself as a Devils-style piece of exploitation. It falls hopelessly between two stools, not helped by dubbing, zooms and haphazard plotting.
(Flavia, la monaca musulmana)
Country: IT/FR
Technical: Technicolor 101m
Director: Gianfranco Mingozzi
Cast: Florinda Bolkan, María Casares, Claudio Cassinelli, Anthony Higgins
Synopsis:
In 15th century Italy, when members of the Tarantula cult desecrate her convent, a coerced nun decides to flee the cloistered life, becoming the companion first of a Jew, and then of a marauding muslim leader. Whereupon she sets out on her revenge.
Review:
Inspired by the martyrdom of 800 at Otranto, this lurid tale has pretensions to being a polemic around the dire lot of women in the middle ages, while marketing itself as a Devils-style piece of exploitation. It falls hopelessly between two stools, not helped by dubbing, zooms and haphazard plotting.