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Theban Plays: Oedipus the King
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Theban Plays: Oedipus the King

1986
Directed byDon Taylor
1h 51m

Plagues are ravaging Thebes, and the blind fortune-teller Tieresias tells Oedipus, the King, that the gods are unhappy. The murder of the former king has gone unavenged, and Oedipus sets out to find the killer.

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Michael PenningtonOedipus RexClaire BloomJocastaJohn GielgudTieresias
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GENRES
Drama
STATUSReleased
RATING
2.0

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