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Medea

Name: Medea
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Released: 1969
Rating: 6.7
Cast: Maria Callas, Massimo Girotti, Laurent Terzieff, Giuseppe Gentile, Margareth Clémenti

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.

1969 · Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini · 118 min · Drama · Fantasy · 14 frames

Tagline

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.

Crew

Written by: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cinematography: Ennio Guarnieri
Edited by: Nino Baragli
Production design: Dante Ferretti
Produced by: Marina Cicogna, Franco Rossellini, Georges Chappedelaine, Bino Cicogna

Cast

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

Production

Country: France, Germany, Italy
Language: Italian
Studios: Les Films Number One, Janus Film und Fernsehen, San Marco
Themes: marriage crisis, ritual, based on play or musical, greek mythology, medea, revenge, ancient greece, golden fleece, infanticide, greek tragedy

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More by Pier Paolo Pasolini

The Gospel According to St. Matthew — 1965
The Decameron — 1971
Oedipus Rex — 1967
Arabian Nights — 1974
Mamma Roma — 1962
Theorem — 1968
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom — 1976
The Canterbury Tales — 1972

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