Oedipus Rex
Oedipus Rex

Oedipus Rex1967

Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini

Pasolini’s Terrifying… Compassionate… Magnificent…

In pre-war Italy, a young couple have a baby boy. The father, however, is jealous of his son - and the scene moves to antiquity, where the baby is taken into the desert to be killed. He is rescued, given the name Oedipus, and brought up by the King and Queen of Corinth as their son. One day an oracle informs Oedipus that he is destined to kill his father and marry his mother. Horrified, he flees Corinth and his supposed parents - only to get into a fight and kill an older man on the road…

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Franco Citti - OedipusSilvana Mangano - Jocasta, Queen of Thebes (and unnamed Italian young mother)Alida Valli - Merope, Queen of CorinthCarmelo Bene - CreonJulian Beck - TiresiasLuciano Bartoli - Laius, King of Thebes (and unnamed Italian young father)Francesco Leonetti - Servo di LaioAhmed Belhachmi - Polybus, King of CorinthGiovanni Ivan Scratuglia - SacerdoteGiandomenico Davoli - Pastore di Polibo
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