
“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.
Release Date: 12/28/1969
Runtime: 118 minutes
Languages: Italian
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
00Companies: Les Films Number One, Janus Film und Fernsehen, San Marco
Countries: France, Germany, Italy

Maria Callas
Medea

Massimo Girotti
Creonte

Laurent Terzieff
Chirone

Giuseppe Gentile
Giasone

Margareth Clémenti
Glauce

Paul Jabara
Pelias
Gerard Weiss
Second Centaur

Sergio Tramonti
Apsirto, Medea's Brother
Luigi Barbini
Argonaut
Gian Paolo Durgar
Luigi Masironi
Jason at 5
Michelangelo Masironi
Jason at 13

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