Oedipus Rex
Pasolini’s Terrifying… Compassionate… Magnificent…
19671h 45mNo ratings yet
- Drama
Overview
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…
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- September 7, 1967
- Original language
- Italian
- Spoken languages
- Italian, Romanian
- Countries
- Italy, Morocco
- Cast
- Franco Citti,Silvana Mangano,Alida Valli,Carmelo Bene,Julian Beck,Luciano Bartoli,Francesco Leonetti,Ahmed Belhachmi,Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia,Giandomenico Davoliand 4 more
- Director
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Writer
- Pier Paolo Pasolini,Sophocles
- Producer
- Alfredo Bini
- Cinematography
- Giuseppe Ruzzolini
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0061613