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Edipo re (1967/I)

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User Rating: 7.5/10 (833 votes)
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Overview

Writers:
Sophocles (play)
Pier Paolo Pasolini (writer)
Release Date:
7 September 1967 (Italy) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
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... more | add synopsis
Awards:
3 wins & 1 nomination more
User Comments:
Authenticity is not the issue more

Cast

 (Credited cast)
Silvana Mangano ... Jocasta
Franco Citti ... Oedipus
Alida Valli ... Merope
Carmelo Bene ... Creon
Julian Beck ... Tiresias
Luciano Bartoli ... Laius
Francesco Leonetti ... Laius' Servant
Ahmed Belhachmi ... Polybus
Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia ... Priest (as Ivan Scratuglia)
Giandomenico Davoli ... Shepherd
Ninetto Davoli ... Angelo the Messenger
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Oedipus Rex (USA)
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Runtime:
104 min
Country:
Italy | Morocco
Language:
Italian
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Canada:14+ (Ontario) | Spain:13 | Argentina:16 | Finland:K-16 | UK:15 (video rating) (1990) | UK:X (original rating)
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Company:
Arco Film more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
First part of Pier Paolo Pasolini's "Mythical Cycle" also including Teorema (1968), Porcile (1969) and Medea (1969). more
Movie Connections:
Featured in Wie de Waarheid Zegt Moet Dood (1981) more

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10 out of 14 people found the following comment useful:-
Authenticity is not the issue, 3 October 2004
10/10
Author: Daniel Hayes (dphayes@dal.ca) from Halifax, NS

We do ourselves no favour by fixating on how well a film uses every little detail and line in an original text. Certainly, by those standards this is a mediocre, and possibly lazy, film at best. But at the same time there is the problem of being so liberal in one's adaptation that every goes sour, the latest attempt at "Vanity Fair" is a perfect example. But this film, along with Bresson's "Pickpocket," should stand as the rules of adaptation for every young director. Both films are very interpretative, but the directors aren't so naive as to think that mere plot details can constitute a film. So what pushes this film beyond a mere surface-level adaptation? In this case, it takes a deep insight into the nature of Greek tragedy itself. Tragedy's dualism (the representational and the chaotic) is prevalent in all Pasolini's works, it was especially essential in his "Gospel," and I was excited to see how it played out in its own source, and the results are absolutely fantastic. Visually imaginative and so intellectually superior to its contemporaries it seems out of place in film.

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