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Oedipus Rex
Pasolini’s Terrifying… Compassionate… Magnificent…
6.8(375)19671h 45m
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…
- Director
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Writers
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
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Cast
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
Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia
Sacerdote
Giandomenico Davoli
Pastore di Polibo
Ninetto Davoli
Angelo
Laura Betti
Jocasta's Maid (uncredited)
Pier Paolo Pasolini
High Priest (uncredited)
Isabel Ruth
Jocasta's Maid with a Lamb (uncredited)
Crew
Directing
- Pier Paolo PasoliniDirector
- Lina D'AmicoScript Supervisor
- Jean-Claude BietteAssistant Director
- Benoît LamyAssistant Director
Writing
- Pier Paolo PasoliniWriter
- SophoclesTheatre Play
Production
- Walter FabrizioProduction Secretary
- Eliseo BoschiProduction Manager
- Mario CocciolettiProduction Supervisor
- Alfredo BiniProducer
Camera
- Otello SpilaCamera Operator
- Bruno BruniStill Photographer
- Sergio RubiniAssistant Camera
- Giuseppe RuzzoliniDirector of Photography
Editing
- Nino BaragliEditor
Sound
- Fausto AncillaiSound Mixer
- Carlo TarchiSound
Art
- Dante FerrettiAssistant Production Design
- Andrea FantacciSet Decoration
- Luigi ScaccianoceProduction Design
Costume & Make-Up
- Ernesta CesettiHairstylist
- Maria Teresa CorridoniHairstylist
- Danilo DonatiCostume Design
- Giulio NatalucciMakeup Artist
- Piero CicolettiAssistant Costume Designer
- Goffredo RocchettiMakeup Artist