Oedipus Rex
In pre-war Italy, a young couple have a baby boy. The father, however, is jealous of his son - and the scene moves to an...
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…
Alida Valli
Laura Betti
Silvana Mangano
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Julian Beck
Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia
Luciano Bartoli
Franco Citti
Genres: 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…
Cast
Alida Valli
Merope, Queen of Corinth
Laura Betti
Jocasta's Maid (uncredited)
Silvana Mangano
Jocasta, Queen of Thebes (and unnamed Italian young mother)
Pier Paolo Pasolini
High Priest (uncredited)
Julian Beck
Tiresias
Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia
Sacerdote
Luciano Bartoli
Laius, King of Thebes (and unnamed Italian young father)
Franco Citti
Oedipus
Carmelo Bene
Creon
Francesco Leonetti
Servo di Laio
Ahmed Belhachmi
Polybus, King of Corinth
Giandomenico Davoli
Pastore di Polibo
Ninetto Davoli
Angelo
Isabel Ruth
Jocasta's Maid with a Lamb (uncredited)