Oedipus Rex (1967 film) Jocasta commits suicide. Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalist<br> Won Silver Ribbon<br> Alfredo Bini for Best Producer and Luigi Scaccianoce for Best Production Design<br> 1968 Kinema Junpo Awards<br> Won Best Foreign Language Film<br> 1970 Venice Film Festival<br> Nominated for Golden Lion<br> 1967 Oedipus Rex (1967 film) Oedipus Rex ("Edipo re") is a 1967 Italian film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Pasolini adapted the screenplay from the Greek tragedy "Oedipus Rex" written by Sophocles in 428 BC. The film was mainly shot in Morocco. A son is born to a young couple in pre-war Italy. The father, motivated by jealousy, takes
Oedipus Rex is based on; he refers to the play as a “further modification of the legend”, one that originates in a “misconceived secondary revision of the material, which has sought to exploit it for theological purposes.” The play has been filmed several times, twice in English. The 1957 film version, directed by Tyrone Guthrie, starred Douglas Campbell as Oedipus and had the cast performing the entire play in masks, as in ancient Greek theatre. The second English language film version, directed by Philip Saville and released in 1968, was filmed in Greece. This one showed the actors' faces and boasted an