Poster for Medea

Medea

1969 · 118 min · Drama, Fantasy

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.

Writer
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Released
December 28, 1969
Language
Italian
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