Medea
1969, Film, 118 min, Drama, Fantasy, Italian, Italy, MoviePedia score 67
It's a movie about a woman who beheads her brother, stabs her children, and sends her lover's wife up in flames. For Maria Callas, it's a natural.
Based on the plot of Euripides' Medea. Medea centers on the barbarian protagonist as she finds her position in the Greek world threatened, and the revenge she takes against her husband Jason who has betrayed her for another woman.
Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cast
- Maria Callas as Medea
- Massimo Girotti as Creonte
- Laurent Terzieff as Chirone
- Giuseppe Gentile as Giasone
- Margareth Clémenti as Glauce
- Paul Jabara as Pelias
- Gerard Weiss as Second centaur
- Sergio Tramonti as Apsirto, Medea's brother
- Luigi Barbini as Argonaut
- Gian Paolo Durgar
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