EDIPO RE
OEDIPUS REX
Pier Paolo Pasolini / Italy, Morocco / 1967 / 104 min / Colour
After a prologue set in the 1920s, the film enters into the tragedy of Sophocles, reinvented in a Freudian light, with Oedipus not escaping the prophecy of killing his father and lying with his mother Jocasta. The epilogue takes place in Bologna in the late 1960s. Much of the film was shot on the desert heights of Morocco and in the cities of Ait-Ben-Haddou, Ouarzazate and Zagora.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Poet, novelist, director, and actor, Pier Paolo Pasolini is considered one of the most important artists and intellectuals of the twentieth century. Born in Bologna in 1922 and raised between Emilia and Friuli, he moved to Rome in the 1950s. He began in cinema collaborating with Federico Fellini on Le notti di Cabiria. His first film, Accattone, was followed by another twenty, until the time of his tragic death in 1975, after censorship, praise, criticism, and progressive worldwide fame.
Credits
Screenplay Pier Paolo PasoliniCinematography Giuseppe RuzzoliniEditing Nino BaragliMusic Pier Paolo PasoliniMain cast Franco Citti, Silvana Mangano, Alida Valli, Julian Beck, Carmelo Bene, Ninetto Davoli, Luciano Bartoli, Ahmed Belhachmi, Francesco Leonetti, Giandomenico Davoli, Ivan Scratuglia, Pier Paolo PasoliniProducer Alfredo BiniProduction company Arco Film, Somafis
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