Medea
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.
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12/28/1969Runtime
118 minsOverview
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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A fierce operatic tragedy of love curdled into vengeance, rendered in stark ritual and visceral violence. Callas commands the screen as a woman whose monumental pride becomes her instrument of destruction.
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