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Medea

1969·118'

Pier Paolo Pasolini

FantasyDrama

★ 6.6

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 Callas Maria Callas Medea
Massimo Girotti Massimo Girotti Creonte
Laurent Terzieff Laurent Terzieff Chirone
Giuseppe Gentile Giuseppe Gentile Giasone
Margareth Clémenti Margareth Clémenti Glauce
Paul Jabara Paul Jabara Pelias
Gerard Weiss Second Centaur
Sergio Tramonti Sergio Tramonti Apsirto, Medea's Brother
Luigi Barbini Argonaut
Gian Paolo Durgar
Luigi Masironi Jason at 5
Michelangelo Masironi Jason at 13

Screenings in Brussels

No upcoming screenings.