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.

"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."

Credits

Pier Paolo PasoliniDirector

Maria CallasMedea

Massimo GirottiCreonte

Laurent TerzieffChirone

Giuseppe GentileGiasone