خلاصه داستان : این فیلم در کنار خوکدانی پازولینی و پرخوری بزرگ مارکو فرری از مهمترین فیلمهای دهه 70 بودند که نسبت سیاست زندگی و سیاست مرگ را پربلماتیک کردند. ..

On the streets of a damp metropolis lie the corpses of hundreds and hundreds of boys and girls. No one can give them a resting place because of a law enacted by a repressive State. But the young Antigone, with the help of a foreigner, Tiresias, violates this rule in the name of pietas, undermining the established order.

خلاصه داستان : شاه لایوس فرمان می دهد تا پسر نوزادش، ادیپ، را در صحرا رها کنند. اما چوپانی ادیپ را نجات می دهد، به دربار کورنت می برد و شاه پولیبوس او را به فرزندی می پذیرد. ادیپ بزرگ می شود و خیلی زود...

In pre-war Italy, a young couple have a baby boy. The father, however, is jealous of his son - and the scene moves to antiquity, where the baby is taken into the desert to be killed. He is rescued, given the name Edipo (Oedipus), and brought up by the King and Queen of Corinth as their son. One day an oracle informs Edipo that he is destined to kill his father and marry his mother. Horrified, he flees Corinth and his supposed parents - only to get into a fight and kill an older man on the road…