FILM

Oedipus Rex (1967)

Name: Oedipus Rex
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Genre: Drama
Released: 1967-09-07
Cast: Franco Citti, Silvana Mangano, Alida Valli, Carmelo Bene, Julian Beck

Film · 1967 · 105 min · Drama

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…

Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini

Starring Franco Citti, Silvana Mangano, Alida Valli, Carmelo Bene, Julian Beck, Luciano Bartoli, Francesco Leonetti, Ahmed Belhachmi

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Release dates in the United States

In cinemas	7 December 1984
Digital release	Not listed
Physical release	14 March 2003
First release anywhere	7 September 1967

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