Oedipus orca (1977)

Director:

Eriprando Visconti

Writers:

Eriprando Visconti (story), Eriprando Visconti (screenplay),

Stars:

Rena Niehaus, Gabriele Ferzetti, Carmen Scarpitta

1 win.

Cast

Cast overview:
Rena Niehaus	...	Alice
Gabriele Ferzetti	...	Valerio
Carmen Scarpitta	...	Irene
Michele Placido	...	Michele Turrisi
Piero Faggioni	...	Lucio Garbi
Vittorio Valsecchi
Enzo Consoli
Gianni Bortolotto
Eleonora Morana
Agnes Kalpagos
Miguel Bosé	...	Humberto

Storyline

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Thriller

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Details

Country:

Italy

Language:

Italian

Release Date:

4 April 1977 (Italy)

Also Known As:

Peregrina de hombres

Company Credits

Production Co:

Serena Film '75

Technical Specs

Runtime:

90 min 90 min (DVD)

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Connections

Follows La orca (1976)

User Reviews

Wretched sequel to good film..

It seems after the success of the fine thriller "La Orca" director Eriprando Visconti saw a way to make some more money, by continuing a story that should have ended with the first film. The young girl, released from her captivity, returns home to pout and scream and have numerous "flashbacks" which materialize in endless clips from the first movie. "Oedipus Orca" immediately dissolves into a turgid soap opera, when the girl embarks on a quest to find out if an old family friend had an affair with her mother years ago, and as a result could be her real father. Rather than following a more interesting story about the girl and her anger at her stepfather for not paying her ransom in the first film, we get a lot of nudity. And badly filmed sex scenes. This film is pointless in every way, and the director must have realised this, as he decided to stick in completely repulsive footage of cattle being shot in the head, gutted and skinned and decapitated on camera, in a scene that seems to go on forever. A scene that has absolutely nothing to do with the story at all. The tasteless scene only exposes the film for the garbage that it really is. It is hard to believe after seeing this one that director Eriprando Visconti is the nephew of Luchino Visconti, a man known for beautiful and tasteful art-house films. The original film "La Orca" is a very good film, but this sequel is so bad that it almost hurts the original. I wish I never saw this garbage.