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 Jean Cocteau in French and then translated by Abbé Jean Daniélou into Latin; the narration, however, is performed in the language of the audience. Oedipus rex was written towards the beginning of Stravinsky's neoclassical period, and is considered one of the finest works from this phase of the composer's career. He had considered setting the work in Ancient Greek, but decided ultimately on Latin: in his words "a medium not dead but turned to stone." Michael Pennington starred as Oedipus with Claire Bloom as Jocasta, Sir John Gielgud as Tiresias and John Shrapnel as Creon in Don Taylor's 1986 translation/adaptation