Sep 07, 1967
104 min
Full-HD

Oedipus Rex (1967)

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…

Category

Drama

Country

Italy

Companies

Somafis Arco Film

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

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