Overview - Oedipus Rex

Date of release

Genres

  • Drama

Runtime: 104 minutes

Homepage: Oedipus Rex

Budget

Budget data not disclosed

Revenue

Revenue data not disclosed

Spoken Languages

  • Italiano

Production companies

  • Name: Somafis

    Production country

  • Name: Arco Film

    Production country Italy

Overview

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…

Cast

  • Name: Franco Citti

    Character: Oedipus

    Popularity: 0.5717

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  • Name: Silvana Mangano

    Character: Jocasta, Queen of Thebes (and unnamed Italian young mother)

    Popularity: 1.2737

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  • Name: Alida Valli

    Character: Merope, Queen of Corinth

    Popularity: 2.4079

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  • Name: Carmelo Bene

    Character: Creon

    Popularity: 0.239

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  • Name: Julian Beck

    Character: Tiresias

    Popularity: 1.5012

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  • Name: Luciano Bartoli

    Character: Laius, King of Thebes (and unnamed Italian young father)

    Popularity: 1.832

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  • Name: Francesco Leonetti

    Character: Servo di Laio

    Popularity: 0.4628

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  • Name: Ahmed Belhachmi

    Character: Polybus, King of Corinth

    Popularity: 0.3076