Medea (1969)
"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."
Drama
Fantasy
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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.
Cast
Maria Callas
Medea
Massimo Girotti
Creonte
Laurent Terzieff
Chirone
Giuseppe Gentile
Giasone
Margareth Clémenti
Glauce
Paul Jabara
Pelias
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Gerard Weiss
Second Centaur
Sergio Tramonti
Apsirto, Medea's Bro...
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Luigi Barbini
Argonaut
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Gian Paolo Durgar
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Luigi Masironi
Jason at 5
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Michelangelo Masironi
Jason at 13
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Gianni Brandizi
Argonaut
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Franco Jacobbi
Argonaut
Annamaria Chio
Wet Nurse