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OEDIPUS REX

Edipo Re

Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Italy, Morocco, 1967
Drama, History, Avant-Garde
  • 104104 minutes

Synopsis

Amid the awe-inspiring landscapes of the Moroccan desert, the myth of Oedipus plays out, where the fated boy’s willful blindness to his nature unleashes a cataclysmic reckoning. Meanwhile, a prologue and epilogue set in twentieth-century Italy bring the legend of Oedipus into the modern day.

Synopsis

Amid the awe-inspiring landscapes of the Moroccan desert, the myth of Oedipus plays out, where the fated boy’s willful blindness to his nature unleashes a cataclysmic reckoning. Meanwhile, a prologue and epilogue set in twentieth-century Italy bring the legend of Oedipus into the modern day.