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Oedipus Rex

Country: Italy, Language: Italian, 104 mins

Original Title

Edipo Re
  • Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
  • Writer: Sophocles; Pier Paolo Pasolini
  • Producer: Alfredo Bini

CGiii Comment

Hats, hats and more hats...

Pasolini does Sophocles...dubbed and performed badly.

Marvelous hats though.


Trailer...

The(ir) Blurb...

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 Edipo (Oedipus), and brought up by the King and Queen of Corinth as their son. One day an oracle informs Edipo 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...

Cast & Characters

Silvana Mangano as Jocasta;
Franco Citti as Oedipus;
Alida Valli as Merope;
Carmelo Bene as Creon;
Julian Beck as Tiresias;
Luciano Bartoli as Laius;
Francesco Leonetti as Laius' Servant;
Ahmed Belhachmi as Polybus;
Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia as Priest;
Giandomenico Davoli as Shepherd;
Ninetto Davoli as Angelo the Messenger;
Laura Betti as Jocasta's Maid;
Pier Paolo Pasolini as High Priest;
Isabel Ruth as Jocasta's Maid with a Lamb