Film · Drama, Fantasy
Medea (1969)
★ 6.7 · 196 votes1 h 58 minDrama, Fantasy1969
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.
- Director
- Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Writers
- Pier Paolo Pasolini, Euripides
- Country
- Italy
- Language
- Italian
- Release date
- December 28, 1969
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 Durgar
- Luigi MasironiJason at 5
- Michelangelo MasironiJason at 13
- Gianni BrandiziArgonaut
- Franco JacobbiArgonaut
Annamaria ChioWet Nurse
Piera Degli EspostiWoman
Mirella Pamphili- Graziella ChiarcossiGlauce's Maid
Rossana CanghiariServant of Glauce (uncredited)
Maria Cumani Quasimodo(uncredited)
