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Medea

19691h 58mDrama · Fantasy
directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini

“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.”

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6.6 / 10
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6.9 / 10
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Synopsis

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.

Cast

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·–