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6.8/10 • 352

1967-09-07 • 1h 44m

Drama

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…

Directors
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Writters
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Editors
Pier Paolo Pasolini, Nino Baragli

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  1. Franco Citti

    Franco Citti

    Oedipus

  2. Silvana Mangano

    Silvana Mangano

    Jocasta, Queen of Thebes (and unnamed Italian young mother)

  3. Alida Valli

    Alida Valli

    Merope, Queen of Corinth

  4. Carmelo Bene

    Carmelo Bene

    Creon

  5. Julian Beck

    Julian Beck

    Tiresias

  6. Luciano Bartoli

    Luciano Bartoli

    Laius, King of Thebes (and unnamed Italian young father)

  7. Francesco Leonetti

    Francesco Leonetti

    Servo di Laio

  8. Ahmed Belhachmi

    Ahmed Belhachmi

    Polybus, King of Corinth

  9. Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia

    Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia

    Sacerdote

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Original Language
Italian
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