

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.

Hauptmann / Teiresias
Gefreiter / Ödipus

Griechische Schauspielerin / Königin Iokaste

Obergefreiter / Kameramann

Griechischer Schauspieler / Kreon
Hauptfeldwebel

Bauer aus Theben
Bote aus Korinth

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.
Hauptmann / Teiresias