MEDEA
Pier Paolo Pasolini / France, Germany, Italy / 1969 / 110 min / Colour
Filmed largely in the mountains of Cappadocia and in Aleppo, Syria, Medea is Pasolini’s second film inspired by the Greek myths. His Medea is Maria Callas. The sorceress helped Jason in the conquest of the Golden Fleece, giving him two children. When Jason shows that he wants to leave her to marry Glauce, she causes the death of her rival with her magic and then kills her children.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Poet, novelist, director, and actor, Pier Paolo Pasolini is considered one of the most important artists and intellectuals of the twentieth century. Born in Bologna in 1922 and raised between Emilia and Friuli, he moved to Rome in the 1950s. He began in cinema collaborating with Federico Fellini on Le notti di Cabiria. His first film, Accattone, was followed by another twenty, until the time of his tragic death in 1975, after censorship, praise, criticism, and progressive worldwide fame.
Credits
Screenplay Pier Paolo PasoliniCinematography Ennio GuarnieriEditing Nino BaragliMain cast Maria Callas, Luigi Barbini, Giuseppe Gentile, Annamaria Chio, Margareth Clementi, Massimo Girotti, Laurent Terzieff, Sergio Tramonti, Maria Cumani Quasimodo, Piera Degli Esposti, Paul JabaraProducer Franco RosselliniProduction company Janus Film und Fernsehen, Les Films Number One, San Marco
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