• Duration: 78’
• Genre: TV MOVIE
• Resolution: HD
• Year: 2022

A curse hangs over Oedipus from which he cannot free himself, and its stigma also weighs on his offspring. The tragedy portrays a man who has spent his entire life fleeing his destiny, until he finally accepts his fate and its consequences by taking full responsibility for his crime and exacting his own punishment and penance. A recurring motif of the play is the epidemic that sweeps the entire city and destroys the happiness of Oedipus and his family. The problems of man’s greatness and downfall, his freedom and limitations, taken up in „Oedipus the King,” are extremely relevant today. Jacek Raginis-Królikiewicz’s film is set in a world that combines features of antiquity, the present and the future. The thoroughly modern interiors are combined with ancient styling. Some of the dialogue parts are sung or expressed in the form of melorecitation. A recurring motif of the play is an epidemic that engulfs the entire city, eventually destroying the happiness of Oedipus and his family.