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Format: VHS
Not Rated
Recording Mode: (unknown)
110 min. |
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Details
Movie Description
This splendid version of Sophocles' great Greek tragedy was filmed on location in Morocco and is flanked by a prologue and epilogue set in modern times.
Synopsis
Pasolini's dreamlike rendering of Sophocles' ageless tragedy about a man who unknowingly kills his father and marries his mother. Shifting between stark Moroccan desertscapes and contemporary Bolognian settings, Pasolini incorporates eclectic strains of both Western and Eastern culture into this unique and startling version of a classic tale.
Film Notes
Color by Technicolor.
Additional cast members: Julian Beck (Tiresia); Carmelo Bene (Creonte)
Sophocles, who wrote the original tragedy, is not credited by Pasolini.
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