Medea (Italy/France/West Germany)
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Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini Cast: Maria Callas Guiseppe Gentili Footage: 118min Year: 1970 |
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Based on the Greek classic by Euripides. Pasolini's Medea tells the story of a woman who gets sore at her husband and kills her children to get even. Pasolini tackles sexuality, love and desire at the dawn of Christianity showing the people of the Mediterranean as conflict-ripe melting pot of racial and cultural diversity. Works of the same director: |
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