Oedipus the King (1968)

Directors

Philip Saville

Cast

Christopher Plummer

The story

The film is a largely faithful adaptation of the original text, with a screenplay based on Paul Roche's translation directly from the Greek published in the early 1950s. However, the film went a step further than the play, by actually showing, in flashback, the murder of King Laius. It also showed Oedipus and Jocasta in bed together, making love.

Genres

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