Medea
- Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Writer: Euripides; Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Producer: Marina Cicogna; Klaus Hellwig
CGiii Comment
It boasts Callas - and that is all. Some would say that's a great boast!
The sound is unacceptable, the dubbing is lunacy - dubbing Italian on Italian - why?
It's Pasolini's weakest work - there are those that hail it to be a work of art - those are sycophantic film students trying to up their grades.
It's rubbish - there, it's been said!
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
On a quest to retrieve the fabled Golden Fleece, Jason and the Argonauts arrive at a remote barbarian land where the natives worship the sacred artefact to protect the crops. But, unexpectedly, as Medea--a beautiful high priestess and the land's powerful sorceress--betrays her beliefs to follow Jason back to Greece, a cruel fate awaits her. As a result, deserted and banished by the king, it's only human that Medea plots her furious revenge. Can they escape her wrath?
Cast & Characters
Maria Callas as Medea;
Massimo Girotti as King Kresus / Creonte;
Laurent Terzieff as Centaur;
Giuseppe Gentile as Jason;
Margareth Clementi as Glauce;
Paul Jabara as Pelias;
Gerard Weiss as Second centaur;
Sergio Tramonti as Apsirto, Medea's brother;
Luigi Barbini as Argonaut;
Gian Paolo Durgar;
Luigi Masironi;
Michelangelo Masironi;
Gianni Bradizi; Franco Jacobbi;
Annamaria Chio as Wet-nurse