Medea 1969 N/R, 110 min. Genre: Foreign / Drama / Fantasy
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini Cast: Maria Callas, Giuseppe Gentile, Massimo Girotti, Laurent Terzieff, Margaret Clementi, Annamaria Chio, Sergio Tramonti, Paul Jabara, Luigi Barbini, Gerard Weiss, Gian Paolo Durgar
In this adaptation of Euripides' play, opera star Maria Callas plays Medea, the sorceress queen, who meets Jason (Giuseppe Gentile) when he arrives to recover the Golden Fleece stolen by Medea's father. She falls for Jason, they return to Greece, marry, and have two children. Ten years later, Jason tells her that he is going to wed another, and Medea demonstrates her destructive powers.
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