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EDIPO RE filming locations
(aka OEDIPUS THE KING)



CREDITS
EDIPO RE , 1967
dir: Pier Paolo Pasolini

Franco Citti
Silvana Mangano
Alida Valli
Pasoliniís heavily Freudian filming of the Greek myth is bookended by the birth of a child in the 1930s and his maturity in the 1960s.

For the ancient Greek towns of ëCorinthí and ëThebeís, Pasolini used the beautiful fortified kasbahs and the spectacular deserts around Ouarzazate, southern Morocco.

The updated prologue and epilogue filmed in Pasoliniís hometown of Bologna, Italy.

The present-day Oedipus becomes a blind beggar playing his flute on the steps of San Petronio, one of the worldís largest churches, on the Piazza Maggiore, while his boy, Angelo, chases pigeons in front of the Palazzo Communale.

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FILMING LOCATIONS FOR EDIPO RE
Italy
Morocco
ASSOCIATED FILMS

Ouarzazate is a popular location you can also see in Gladiator and Sergio leone's The Last Days of Sodom and Gomorrah.

 

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