
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."
Overview
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.
Top Cast

Maria Callas
Medea

Massimo Girotti
Creonte

Laurent Terzieff
Chirone

Giuseppe Gentile
Giasone

Margareth Clémenti
Glauce

Paul Jabara
Pelias

Gerard Weiss
Second Centaur

Sergio Tramonti
Apsirto, Medea's Brother

Luigi Barbini
Argonaut

Gian Paolo Durgar

Luigi Masironi
Jason at 5

Michelangelo Masironi
Jason at 13

Gianni Brandizi
Argonaut

Franco Jacobbi
Argonaut

Annamaria Chio
Wet Nurse

Piera Degli Esposti
Woman

Mirella Pamphili

Graziella Chiarcossi
Glauce's Maid

Rossana Canghiari
Servant of Glauce (uncredited)

Maria Cumani Quasimodo
(uncredited)

Vladimer Julukhadze
(uncredited)

Maria Smith
Maid (uncredited)

Giorgio Trombetti
(uncredited)
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