Castigata-The Chastened

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Movie
German title Castigata-The Chastened
Original title Flavia, la monaca musulmana
Country of production Italy , France
original language Italian
Publishing year 1974
length 90/97 (shortened / unabridged) minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Gianfranco Mingozzi
script Gianfranco Mingozzi
Bruno Di Geronimo
Fabrizio Onofri
Sergio Tau
production Gianfranco Mingozzi
music Nicola Piovani
camera Alfio Contini
cut Ruggero Mastroianni
occupation

Castigata - The chastened , also the nun and the buccaneer (Original: Flavia, la monaca musulmana , German video / DVD title Flavia - ordeal of a nun or nuns tormented to the blood ) is an erotic and belonging to the Nunsploitation genre Exploitation film from 1974. Directed by Gianfranco Mingozzi , who wrote the script together with Bruno Di Geronimo , Fabrizio Onofri and Sergio Tau based on motifs from the Otranto campaign .

The Italian-French co-production with socially critical elements tells the story of the rebellion of an emancipated religious sister against the patriarchy against the background of Islamic expansion . The young woman's search for freedom and justice ends fatally in a vicious circle of violence and ultimately in her death.

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Italy in the late 14th century. The young Flavia accompanies her despotic father, Inquisitor Don Diego, on various sometimes extremely brutal campaigns against Islamic invaders. In an unspecified theater of war, the young girl experiences a fateful childhood experience when, accompanied by two friends, she witnesses her father cold-bloodedly beheading an injured oriental handsome . Since then, the stranger has had an irresistible fascination for her. A short time later, her stern father put the young woman in a in Apulia located monastery where you will inevitably given training as a nun.

In this spiritual institution the pious woman makes the acquaintance of so-called “possessed”, “tarantula stung”, leper women after years. In reality they are mostly sick and socially rejected individuals who are falsely accused of sexual instincts. The arrival of those chaotic sinners changed the life of the nun permanently. At first she notices an invisible, hitherto unknown sexual force in the disturbed strangers; first doubts about the existing patriarchal form of society become apparent. In the days that followed, she witnessed how women (also within the monastery walls) were humiliated, oppressed and exploited by men almost every day. The refuge of the monastery does not offer sufficient protection, since here too women are victims of a world dominated by men.

Flavia rebels and decides to escape monastery life . Eventually she left the religious community and met the well-meaning Jew Abraham, who became a loyal companion and friend to her. Nevertheless, the cherished phase of freedom ends after just one day. She is captured by her father's captors, whipped and finally brought back to the monastery. At this point at the latest, they completely lose faith in the prevailing social system.

During a pilgrimage of the nuns, Flavia observes an unexpected attack by armed Muslims on a Christian coastal village. The country is thrown into chaos through armed conflicts. The Muslim attackers proceed with the utmost severity against the "infidels"; they kill, pillage and plunder. In the midst of this violent situation, Flavia thinks she recognizes the feminine Saracen prince Ahmed as the man she once saw as a young girl die by her father's sword. The military leader also notices the virgin religious sister and lovingly leads her into his rooms, where passionate acts take place.

Flavia is now completely changed in her nature. Driven by her love of freedom, she and the allied prince begin a horrific campaign of revenge against her oppressors. First, the mature nun has her former monastery plundered and the nuns present punished before she devotes herself to her actual enemy, Don Diego. Soon afterwards, he and countless of his followers were surrounded and killed by Muslim soldiers. After Abraham was murdered by Ahmed a short time later, Flavia had to realize, unfortunately, that the Muslims also suppress the female sex: All women are kidnapped when the Muslim multitudes withdraw. There is no longer any noteworthy resistance, as the male population was previously largely slaughtered. Flavia, who by then has become estranged from Ahmed, is left alone. At the end of the film she is brutally tortured to death by advancing Christian units for her "satanic" offenses.

Reviews

The lexicon of international films believes that the late Middle Ages colportage was "an unmotivated mess of cruelty and perversion" that "barely spared anything in horror " .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Castigata - The Chastened. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used