Oedipus Rex by Pier Paolo Pasolini
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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)
Francesco Leonetti as Servo di Laio
Ahmed Belhachmi as Polybus, King of Corinth
Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia as Sacerdote
Giandomenico Davoli as Pastore di Polibo
Ninetto Davoli as Angelo
Laura Betti as Jocasta's Maid (uncredited)
Pier Paolo Pasolini as High Priest (uncredited)
Isabel Ruth as Jocasta's Maid with a Lamb (uncredited)
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