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Flavia the Heretic

Florinda Bolkan (Actor), María Casares (Actor), Gianfranco Mingozzi (Director) Rated:
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3.9 out of 5 stars 10 customer reviews
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Product Details

  • Actors: Florinda Bolkan, María Casares, Claudio Cassinelli, Anthony Higgins, Spiros Focás
  • Directors: Gianfranco Mingozzi
  • Format: Multiple Formats, Anamorphic, Color, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
  • Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated:
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  • Studio: Synapse Films
  • DVD Release Date: May 20, 2003
  • Run Time: 101 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00008MHBX
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #132,978 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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4.0 out of 5 starsNuns gone wild
By Jeffrey Leach HALL OF FAME on March 3, 2005
Format: DVD
I must say I was extremely excited when I finally sat down to watch "Flavia the Heretic." I first heard about the film years ago, back when DVD was first coming out and the only way to see films like this was to buy massively expensive first run VHS tapes or low quality dupes. The word on the street about Florinda Bolkan's epic nunsploitation flick was uniformly good. Most reviewers commented on the bizarre gore sequences, sequences renown for being over the top in the brutality department. And since I enjoyed Bolkan's odd performance as a tormented gypsy in Lucio Fulci's giallo "Don't Torture a Duckling," I figured giving this film a look was a no-brainer. Well, there is good and bad with "Flavia the Heretic." Bolkan's turn as a tormented nun is quite good and well worth watching. Regrettably, the gore isn't as disturbing as others said--at least not for me. Then again I've seen so many gore flicks that I'm probably jaded to most of this stuff. Whatever the case, "Flavia the Heretic" does succeed wildly on one important point: the movie is far, FAR better than "The Other Hell," hack director Bruno Mattei's banal contribution to the nunsploitation genre.

Through the eyes of Flavia Gaetani (Bolkan) we learn that fifteenth century Italy is not an amenable place for a young woman. The problems start when young Flavia witnesses the aftermath of a battle between Muslim invaders and her father's military forces. A wounded soldier has the temerity to make eye contact with the young girl, even smiles at her, before Flavia's father sees the two looking at each other and murders the Muslim in a fit of rage. So much for young love. The result of this innocuous exchange sees our young heroine ushered into a convent for life.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsNunsploitation that isn't....
By S. Koropeckyj on September 10, 2005
Format: DVD
Flavia the Heretic is different from other exploitation films. Instead of being gore and sex hidden under a thin shroud of message (like for example Ilsa: Shewolf for the SS or the even more shallow Cannibal Ferox), Flavia the Heretic has a legitimate message (absurd as it might be at times), but gets grouped in with the sex and gore movies that the Italians are so famous for.

After sharing a brief smile with a Muslim soldier before he gets decollated, Flavia is sent to a convent by her uncaring father, where she is haunted by apparitions of angels and unexplained torture of fellow nuns. She asks the ever important question of why men have to be the rulers of women and finds a nun with sympathetic opinions who is even more anti-man than she. But then, salvation for her and friend: Muslims! Yeah, I know that sounds weird... well, because Muslims don't really have the best track record with femenism.

So Flavia manages to seduce the leader of the Muslim invaders after he defeats a group of Christian infidels, including one who Flavia has a certain grudge against (he was a French nobleman who raped a girl in a pig pen... dirty sex (not the Muslim way)). Flavia then frees the nuns and tries to imagine a utopian femenist society, exemplified in a very well directed surreal dream sequence.

But things fall through for our heroine... as they always did for women who took up arms against the establishment at that time and she gets dispatched in a rather gruesome fashion.

The movie is more than nunsploitation. None of the scenes are all that violent. Movies like Behind Convent Walls were certainly more sexually graphic and dwelt much longer on the sex scenes in attempt to make the erotic.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsTormented nun
By Nostalgicman on January 14, 2012
Format: DVD Verified Purchase
This movie centers around the old, but still timely, issue of male domination over women. The main character played good by Florinda Bolkan (directed by other Italian directors such as Lucio Fulci), who faces awful relationships with her father, Muslim lover, and of course, Catholic Church. The story takes place around Foggia (Italy) during the transition between Middle Ages and Renascence, and uses very nice exteriors and some old monasteries (nothing difficult to find all over Italy!!). Please, note that this is not a nun exploitation movie, with extended sexual depravation around demonic ceremonies. You will have some female and male nudity and some scenes of very graphic violence. Nothing major though compared with a Fulci film. Overall, recommended for fans of Italian or Euro films. As far as the DVD transfer, picture quality is pretty good, widescreen presentation, English audio, no subtitles. Extras include a few trailers and an interesting interview with Florinda Bolkan. By the way, this movie is from 1974, not 1977.
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5.0 out of 5 starsLike some meat with your blood & guts?
By Fred Adelman on May 18, 2014
Format: Blu-ray Verified Purchase
I have never been a fan of the Italian "nunsploitation" genre, as I find the antics of sex-crazed nuns unappealing to me (no matter how beautiful the are), but this film, which is one of the first films to give birth to the genre, is more like "Joan Of Arc" than a straight-up exploitation film, and, even though it has its share of exploitative moments, it plays more like a historical drama than it does a nunsploitation film. It could be because it was directed/produced/co-written by Gianfranco Mingozzi, who was better known for his many documentaries than for any other type of genre. Maybe that's why this film seems more like a chronicle of one person's life, told through her eyes, as she witnesses the worst that religion and politics (that go hand-in-hand in this film) than a sex-laden portrayal of a convent, which most nunsploitation flicks portray. Don't get me wrong; there is plenty of nudity and violence in this film, but the nudity is not there to titillate audiences and the violence is shown to relay to us just how bad it was in 1400's Europe, especially for women. FLAVIA THE HERETIC (shown in U.S. theaters in a severely edited form as FLAVIA PRIESTESS OF VIOLENCE, which is a totally misleading title, but that was the way advertising ran back then to put asses in the seats) opens in 1400 A.D., with the title female (Florinda Bolkan; LAST HOUSE ON THE BEACH - 1978) looking upon a field of dead enemy Muslims after a major battle. When she tries to give aid to a wounded Muslim soldier, her father (Diego Michelotti), a general who fought for the other side, decapitates the Muslim soldier and parades around with his head on a pike for all his soldiers to see.Read more ›
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