Overview
During the Greek summer in the war year of 1944, a German military unit sets up camp on the plateau of Thebes. Armed with a 16 mm camera, the captain of the unit, a former professor for classical Greek philology, comes up with the idea to film the myth of Oedipus.
Director
Rainer Simon
Writers
Ulrich Plenzdorf, Franz Fühmann, Rainer Simon
Country
Germany, East Germany
Language
German, Greek
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