A Virgin Named Mary (1975)
1h 40m
Running Time
September 11, 1975Release Date
A Virgin Named Mary (1975)
1h 40m
Running Time
September 11, 1975Release Date
Plot.
A second coming? This time our savior chose a shantytown outside Turin, in the north of Italy, overcrowded by poor families coming from the south in search of a job in a factory, or less legal ways to survive. Young Maria (Cinzia De Carolis) can predict the future during her epileptic seizures, or at least that's what everyone believes, and her mother (Clelia Matania) sells her predictions and responses to the superstitious neighbors, after inducing her "trance" with electricity. One night the shock is too strong, and Maria seems to die: when she wakes up, she is found pregnant. And being a honest unmarried girl from the south, she is obviously still virgin... Notwithstanding the opposition of the local priest (Turi Ferro), everyone, including her, believes in the miracle, and prepares for a second coming, in a crescendo of fanaticism that is soon noticed by the press, and by the official church.
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Cast & Crew.
Turi Ferro
Don Vito
Andréa Ferréol
Maddalena
Renato Pinciroli
Giuseppe
Cinzia De Carolis
Maria
Leopoldo Trieste
Nicola
Alvaro Vitali
Rocco
Enzo Cannavale
Simone
Sergio Nasca
Director
Jean Louis
Luca
Nicholas De Witt .
Producer
Tino Carraro
Il vescovo
Glenn Saxson
Producer
Giampiero Vinciguerra
Prospero
Sante Maria Romitelli
Composer
Giuseppe Aquari
Cinematographer
Giorgio Iovine
Giorgio Iovine
Luciano Anconetani
Editor
Francesco D'Adda
Francesco D'Adda
Clelia Matania
Anna
Anna Maria Dossena
Marco Mariani
Marino Masé
Nelly Namiach
Franco Pesce
Details.
Release DateSeptember 11, 1975
Original NameVergine, e di nome Maria
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 40m
Genres
Wiki.
Vergine e di nome Maria (Virgin and Called Mary) is a 1975 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Sergio Nasca. A few days after its first release it was confiscated for contempt of religion; it was subsequently re-edited and redistributed under the title Malía.