Oedipus Rex

Pier Paolo Pasolini
Franco Citti, Silvana Mangano, Alida Valli, Carmelo Bene, Julian Beck, Luciano Bartoli, Francesco Leonetti, Ahmed Belhachmi, Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia, Giandomenico Davoli, Nineto Davoli, Laura Betti, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Isabelle Huppert
1967
Italy, Morocco
Completed
Italian, Romanian
104 minutes
Detailed introduction
This film (drama)Also known asEdipo re,is aItaly, MoroccoProducerwomen sex,At1967Released in year
。The dialogue language isItalian, Romanian,Current Douban rating7.9(For reference only)。
A shepherd from Corinth saves an abandoned baby and offers him to a childless king. Time passes, and the baby grows up to be called Oedipus (Franco Citti). One day, a witch tells Oedipus the myth of Apollo, revealing that he will one day kill his biological father and marry his biological mother. Upon hearing this, Oedipus decides to wander. Along the way, he gets into a fight and accidentally kills an old man, who turns out to be his biological father. He then continues his wanderings to Thebes, where he kills a monster with the body of a man and the head of a beast, and marries the queen, Jocasta (Silvana Mangano), becoming the new king of the land, who is also his biological mother, making Apollo's myth come true. Soon, Thebes is plagued by a disease, and the people search for the murderer of the old king; Oedipus finally learns the whole truth.