Film
Oedipus Rex 1967
105 min TMDB 6.8 Drama
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 as Oedipus
- Silvana Mangano as Jocasta, Queen of Thebes (and unnamed Italian young mother)
- Alida Valli as Merope, Queen of Corinth
- Carmelo Bene as Creon
- Julian Beck as Tiresias
- Luciano Bartoli as Laius, King of Thebes (and unnamed Italian young father)
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