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Oedipus Rex

Original title: Edipo re

Pasolini’s Terrifying… Compassionate… Magnificent…

1967 · 1h 45m

Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini

6.8

TMDB audience score
376 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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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Cast

  • Franco Citti
    Oedipus

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

  • Alida Valli
    Merope, Queen of Corinth

  • Carmelo Bene
    Creon

  • Julian Beck
    Tiresias

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

  • Francesco Leonetti
    Servo di Laio

  • Ahmed Belhachmi
    Polybus, King of Corinth

  • Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia
    Sacerdote

  • Giandomenico Davoli
    Pastore di Polibo

  • Ninetto Davoli
    Angelo

  • Laura Betti
    Jocasta's Maid (uncredited)

  • Pier Paolo Pasolini
    High Priest (uncredited)

  • Isabel Ruth
    Jocasta's Maid with a Lamb (uncredited)