Medea
Medea
“ 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. ”
CINEMA1969-12-28
RegionFR / DE
Runtime118 MIN
Media TypeMovie
PRODUCTION COMPANIES
Nexus Editorial Perspective Nexus Original
“Pasolini and Maria Callas restore Medea's strangeness and pain, making Jason's heroic success inseparable from betrayal, exile, and its devastating aftermath.”
Storyline
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 / Director
Pier Paolo Pasolini
KEYWORDS
marriage crisisritualbased on play or musicalgreek mythologymedearevengeancient greecegolden fleeceinfanticidegreek tragedy
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Gods decree fate, heroes embark on quests, and mortals face the long road home.
Pasolini and Maria Callas restore Medea's strangeness and pain, making Jason's heroic success inseparable from betrayal, exile, and its devastating aftermath.
