Movie·1974

Das Geheimnis des Ödipus

Country

East Germany

Language

German

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// overview

The Story

July 1944: at a fascist front school in occupied Greece, Captain Weirauch, a civilian professor of classical Greek studies, gives a lecture on guilt and atonement in Sophocles' tragedy Oedipus the King.

Themes

nazigreecesophokles

Production House

Audience Score

52%

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// cast

Cast

Alfred Müller

Hauptmann Dr. Karl Weirauch

Andreas Bock

Soldat Pauli

Michael Christian

Soldat Sühlke

Gerhard Bienert

Oberst von Seckentorff

Marga Legal

Gräfin von Seckentorff

Hannjo Hasse

Oberfeldwebel

Jürgen Hentsch

Deutscher Offizier

// crew

Crew

Kurt Jung-Alsen

Screenplay, Director

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