Oedipus Rex

Oedipus Rex

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Drama

Oedipus Rex

Edipo reDIRECTED BYPier Paolo Pasolini105mins1967

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…

Other films by Pier Paolo Pasolini

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
The Decameron
Theorem
The Canterbury Tales

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