Oedipus Rex
- Original title
- Edipo Re
- Year
- 1967
- Running time
- 104 min.
- Country
Italy
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Pier Paolo Pasolini. Play: Sofocles
- Cast
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- Silvana Mangano
- Franco Citti
- Alida Valli
- Carmelo Bene
- Ahmed Belhachmi
- Julian Beck
- Luciano Bartoli
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Laura Betti
- Ninetto Davoli
- Giandomenico Davoli
- Francesco Leonetti
- Isabel Ruth
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- Cinematography
Giuseppe Ruzzolini (B&W)- Producer
- Co-production Italy-Morocco;
- Genre
- Drama | Ancient Greece
- Movie Groups
- Sophocles Adaptations
- 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 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...
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- Rankings Position
- Awards
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1967: Venice Film Festival: Nominated for Golden Lion
- Critics' reviews
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"Pasolini both humanizes the classical legend and reaches deep into the modern psyche to find its origins in ancient agonies."
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"Slow-moving, sensual, and often gorgeous to behold."
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"Pasolini's working of the Sophocles tragedy, though not wholly successful, has its very definite strengths."
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"One of the most underrated, neglected, and powerful of Pier Paolo Pasolini's features."
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