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Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Pasolini's working of the Sophocles tragedy, though not wholly successful, has its very definite strengths. Citti's Oedipus is intuitive and primitive rather than intellectual; the myth itself is treated as a dream set in the Moroccan desert in parenthesis between 'Oedipal' scenes in modern Bologna; and visually it's often astonishing, the harsh desert sunlight and dry buildings isolating the characters effectively.Author: RM
Cast & crew
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Producer: Alfredo Bini
Cast: Franco Citti, Silvana Mangano, Carmelo Bene, Julian Beck, Alida Valli, Ninetto Davoli, Pier Paolo Pasolini full cast
Duration: 104 mins
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