Movies and TvShows featuring "oedipus-character" theme.
The story of Oedipus' gradual discovery of his primal crime, killing his father and marrying his mother, filmed by the famed British theatrical director Sir Tyrone Guthrie. This elegant version of Sophocles' play adds a brilliant stroke: the actors wear masks just as the Greeks did in the playwright's day.
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This classic Greek tale tells how a noble youth accidentally marries his own mother, kills his own father and ends up paying a terrible price for invoking the wrath of the Gods.
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König Ödipus is a 1967 drama movie that tells the tragic story of King Oedipus, who unknowingly fulfills a prophecy by killing his father and marrying his mother.
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