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Oedipus Rex

Name: Oedipus Rex
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Genre: Drama
Released: 1967
Rating: 6.8
Cast: Franco Citti, Silvana Mangano, Alida Valli, Carmelo Bene, Julian Beck

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…

1967 · Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini · 105 min · Drama · 18 frames

Tagline

Pasolini’s Terrifying… Compassionate… Magnificent…

Crew

Written by: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cinematography: Giuseppe Ruzzolini
Edited by: Nino Baragli
Production design: Luigi Scaccianoce
Produced by: Alfredo Bini

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

Production

Country: Italy
Language: Italian
Studios: Somafis, Arco Film

More by Pier Paolo Pasolini

The Gospel According to St. Matthew — 1965
Medea — 1969
The Decameron — 1971
Arabian Nights — 1974
Mamma Roma — 1962
Theorem — 1968
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom — 1976
The Canterbury Tales — 1972

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