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Oedipus Rex (1967)

★ 6.8/10 105 min Drama Italy Italian
Writer: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Theatre Play: Sophocles
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Description

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
Franco Citti Oedipus
Silvana Mangano
Silvana Mangano Jocasta, Queen of Thebes (and unnamed Italian young mother)
Alida Valli
Alida Valli Merope, Queen of Corinth
Carmelo Bene
Carmelo Bene Creon
Julian Beck
Julian Beck Tiresias
Luciano Bartoli
Luciano Bartoli Laius, King of Thebes (and unnamed Italian young father)
Francesco Leonetti
Francesco Leonetti Servo di Laio
Ahmed Belhachmi Polybus, King of Corinth

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