Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Starring Maria Callas · Massimo Girotti · Laurent Terzieff · Giuseppe Gentile
Original language: Italian
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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.
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Cast
- Maria CallasMedea
- Massimo GirottiCreonte
- Laurent TerzieffChirone
- Giuseppe GentileGiasone
- Margareth ClémentiGlauce
- Paul JabaraPelias
- Gerard WeissSecond Centaur
- Sergio TramontiApsirto, Medea's Brother
Details
- Directed by
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Written by
- Pier Paolo Pasolini, Euripides
- Released
- 1969-12-28
- Runtime
- 1h 58m
- Language
- Italian
- Country
- Italy, Germany, France
