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Oedipus Rex
1967Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini1h 45m
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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…
- Drama
Cast
- Franco Citti as Oedipus
- Silvana Mangano as Jocasta, Queen of Thebes (and unnamed Italian young mother)
- Alida Valli as Merope, Queen of Corinth
- Carmelo Bene as Creon
- Julian Beck as Tiresias
- Luciano Bartoli as Laius, King of Thebes (and unnamed Italian young father)
- Francesco Leonetti as Servo di Laio
- Ahmed Belhachmi as Polybus, King of Corinth
- Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia as Sacerdote
- Giandomenico Davoli as Pastore di Polibo
- Ninetto Davoli as Angelo
- Laura Betti as Jocasta's Maid (uncredited)
- Pier Paolo Pasolini as High Priest (uncredited)
- Isabel Ruth as Jocasta's Maid with a Lamb (uncredited)
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