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Oedipus Rex
1967, Sep 07
1h 44m
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…
Directed by
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Written by
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Julian Beck
Tiresias
Alida Valli
Merope, Queen of Corinth
Carmelo Bene
Creon
Isabel Ruth
Jocasta's Maid with a Lamb (uncredited)
Ninetto Davoli
Angelo
Silvana Mangano
Jocasta, Queen of Thebes (and unnamed Italian young mother)
Luciano Bartoli
Laius, King of Thebes (and unnamed Italian young father)
Laura Betti
Jocasta's Maid (uncredited)
Franco Citti
Oedipus
Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia
Sacerdote
Francesco Leonetti
Servo di Laio
Ahmed Belhachmi
Polybus, King of Corinth
Giandomenico Davoli
Pastore di Polibo
Walter Fabrizio
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