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Oedipus

Based on Sophocles' 'Oedipus the King' Greek tragedy.

Also a thriller created in 2023 - Election night. "The polls predict a landslide victory. Everything is about to change. Starring the internationally renowned, multi award-winning Mark Strong and Lesley Manville, Sophocles' epic tragedy is transformed into an essential, explosive human thriller..."

The original story - "The people of Thebes look to Oedipus to lift a terrible curse from them and their city. He consults the oracle and learns that he must root out the late king's murderer. But his relentless interrogation of one man after another leads inexorably, and in the space of a single day, to his own savage conclusion."

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