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Medea

Country: Italy, Language: Italian, 118 mins

  • 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!


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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