Edipo Re - bed of violence
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Edipo Re - bed of violence |
| Original title | Edipo right |
| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1967 |
| length | 104 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Pier Paolo Pasolini |
| production | Alfredo Bini |
| music | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and others |
| camera | Giuseppe Ruzzolini |
| cut | Nino Baragli |
| occupation | |
Edipo Re - Bed of Violence is a feature film by the Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini from 1967. It is a cinematic interpretation of the drama King Oedipus by the Greek tragedy poet Sophocles .
action
Two Oedipus figures, a contemporary one from the 20th century and the mythical model, are the focus of the story. In the 1920s, a young boy was breastfed by a woman in a meadow. His father fears in his mind that his son will steal his love.
This is followed by a cut to ancient Greece, where a little boy is abandoned. A shepherd quickly finds him and takes him to the King of Corinth . There he grows up as his son Oedipus. After strange dreams, Oedipus visits the oracle of Delphi and receives the prophecy that he would kill his father and share the bed with his mother. Confused, he does not return to his supposed parents in Corinth.
On his way he meets the royal procession of Laios, who asks him to clear the way. Oedipus kills his soldiers and ultimately him too, without knowing who the victim is. On the onward journey he comes to Thebes, whose inhabitants he freed from a deadly sphinx . In gratitude, Queen Iokaste took him as a husband.
When numerous residents die of the plague , King Oedipus sends his brother-in-law Creon to the oracle. Creon brings the message that a man who lives in Thebes and who has been guilty of blood through the murder of King Laios is to be found and punished.
Oedipus also questions the blind seer Teiresias, who tells him that he, Oedipus, murdered King Laius. In conversation with his wife Iokaste, Oedipus learns that she used to have a son with Laios (King of Thebes ). They let him suspend and accepted his death. The background was that the oracle of Delphi had prophesied that Laios' son would kill him and sleep with his wife Iokaste .
When the truth about Oedipus' origins and his marriage to his mother comes to light, Iokaste takes his own life, and Oedipus stabs his eyes out. Accompanied only by his servant, he blindly leaves his palace.
In the 1960s, a blind Oedipus sat in front of Bologna Cathedral and entertained passers-by with his flute. With his young, fun-loving companion who guides him, he walks through the working-class district and on foot reaches the meadow where it all began. Here Oedipus finds his peace.
background
Edipo Re is Pasolini's first film to be shot in the Third World . The architecture of Morocco and many extras in crowd scenes became part of the poetry of the film. Much of the music made reference to African rhythms.
Pasolini said of his film: “When I was making the film, I had two goals in mind: first, to make a completely metaphorical and therefore mythologized autobiography; second, to deal with both psychoanalysis and myth. But instead of projecting the myth into psychoanalysis, I projected psychoanalysis back into the myth. "
Pasolini also emphasizes the autobiographical significance of the Oedipus figure: “In the film, patricide is emphasized more than incest . While I had a rival, hateful relationship with my father and therefore felt more free in portraying this relationship, my love for my mother has remained latent. This is the most autobiographical of my films. "
Reviews
“Pasolini has taken the mythical events into the archaic reality of the farmers and craftsmen of the underdeveloped Italian south, relocated it to Morocco and tried to update the ancient material in a Marxist way. An experiment worth seeing and discussing. "
"A fantastic synthesis of Aztec, Sumerian, Black-African and pre-ancient Greek, which merge in the interplay with the desert-like, heat-shimmering plains to form insignia of an imaginary prehistoric time."
“Pasolini's film adaptation of the Oedipus story. Brief ideological hints suggest a possible dissolution of the tragic entanglement; but essentially the meaning of the work lies in the design concept: in a stylized, but extremely colorful and dynamic frame, Pasolini does not show textbook antiquity, but archaic vitality. A cultivated and fascinating work. "
See also
literature
- Dietmar Regensburger, Christian Wessely ( ed. ): From Oedipus to Eichmann . Cultural anthropological prerequisites for violence. Schüren, Marburg 2012, ISBN 3894728140 (with extensive review by Edipo Re )
Web links
- Edipo Re - bed of violence in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Review by Robert J. White, from: Literature Film Quarterly , Vol. 5, No. 1, 1977
Individual evidence
- ^ Pier Paolo Pasolini: Pasolini on Pasolini. In conversation with Jon Halliday. Folio Verlag: Wien, Bozen, 1995, p. 120 (the interview was conducted in 1968).
- ↑ Quotation from Filmgalerie 451 .
- ↑ Edipo Re - Bed of Violence. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 278/1969