Pasolini’s Terrifying… Compassionate… Magnificent…
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…
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Director, Writer
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
Skin64%
TalhotBlond63%
Paternal Leave63%
Cento domeniche67%
The Visit72%
Il maestro63%
Normal66%
Il capitale umano74%
Starving in Suburbia65%
Holy Lands61%
The Girl in the Book58%
What Maisie Knew71%
Gli intoccabili61%
All Together Now67%
The River64%
Northfork59%
Home67%
Vanya on 42nd Street66%
Goal II: Living the Dream60%
Gigi & Nate76%
