Please note this is a region 2 DVD & region B Blu-ray It will require a region B Blu-ray player to play the Blu-ray & DVD or a Region 2 DVD player for the DVD Three years after The Gospel According to Matthew Pier Paolo Pasolini resumed his series of classical adaptations with a savage highly personal take on Sophocles& ancient Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex (Edipo Re) As his first colour feature Oedipus Rex makes brilliant use of wildly alternating Moroccan landscapes to transpose collective myth into a particular vision that is at once tender sensual & wholly unsparing The film is divided into three sections set in different eras The opening takes place in 1920s Italy & recounts a birth that echoes that of the director himself the product of a beautiful bourgeoise&s affair with a military officer The mid section depicts a time "outside of history"
- it is here that the myth of Oedipus (portrayed by Franco Citti of Accattone & Coppola&s The Godfather) one of patricide & incest plays out opposite the young man&s motherlover (Silvana Mangano) An epilogue shot on the streets of present-day Bologna finds Oedipus playing his flute for a bustling citizenry Actors Silvana Mangano Franco Citti Alida Valli Carmelo Bene Julian Beck Luciano Bartoli Francesco Leonetti Ahmed Belhachmi Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia Giandomenico Davoli & Ninetto Davoli Director Pier Paolo Pasolini Certificate 15 years & over Year 1967 Screen Widescreen 1851 Languages Italian Subtitles English Duration 1 hour & 45 minutes (approx)