Medea
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Italy, France, West Germany · 1970
1h 58m
Director Pier Paolo Pasolini
Starring María Callas, Massimo Girotti, Laurent Terzieff, Giuseppe Gentile
Genre 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.
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