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.
Medea
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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Maria Callas
Medea
Massimo Girotti
Creonte
Laurent Terzieff
Chirone
Giuseppe Gentile
Giasone
Margareth Clémenti
Glauce
Paul Jabara
Pelias
Sergio Tramonti
Apsirto, Medea's Brother
Annamaria Chio
Wet Nurse
Piera Degli Esposti
Woman
Mirella Pamphili
Rossana Canghiari
Servant of Glauce (uncredited)
Maria Cumani Quasimodo
(uncredited)
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