Medea
1988, Film, 76 min, Drama, Danish, Denmark, MoviePedia score 66
She sacrifices something she loves, to harm someone who perhaps she loves even more.
Medea after having helped the man she loves, Jason, and given him to birth two children, is driven into fury and vengeful madness after he decides to abandon her to become successor to the throne by marring Glauce, the daughter of Creon, king of Corinth.
Directed by Lars von Trier
Cast
- Udo Kier as Jason
- Kirsten Olesen as Medea
- Henning Jensen as Kreon
- Solbjørg Højfeldt as Ammen
- Preben Lerdorff Rye as Paedragon
- Baard Owe as Aiceus
- Ludmilla Glinska as Glauce
- Vera Gebuhr as Aeldre Terne
- Jonny Kilde as Store Dreng
- Richard Kilde as Lille Dreng
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