Medea
1969 · Movie · 1h 58m
DramaFantasy
"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."
Overview
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.
Ratings
IMDb
6.9/10
Rotten Tomatoes
73%
Key crew
- Pier Paolo PasoliniDirector
- Pier Paolo PasoliniWriter
Cast
- Maria CallasMedea
- Massimo GirottiCreonte
- Laurent TerzieffChirone
- Giuseppe GentileGiasone
- Margareth ClémentiGlauce
- Paul JabaraPelias
- Gerard WeissSecond Centaur
- Sergio TramontiApsirto, Medea's Brother
- Luigi BarbiniArgonaut
- Gian Paolo DurgarCast
- Luigi MasironiJason at 5
- Michelangelo MasironiJason at 13
Stills
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Themes
marriage crisisritualbased on play or musicalgreek mythologymedearevengeancient greecegolden fleeceinfanticidegreek tragedy