- HD 1080
- Runtime: 118m.
- Status: Released
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- Languages: it
- Country: France, Germany, Italy
- Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Stars: María Callas, Massimo Girotti, Laurent Terzieff, Giuseppe Gentile, Margareth Clémenti
- keywords: marriage crisis, ritual, based on play or musical, greek mythology, medea, revenge, ancient greece, golden fleece, infanticide, greek tragedy
- Production_studio: Les Films Number One, Janus Film und Fernsehen, San Marco
- Slogan: 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.
- providers: Criterion Channel
- The Medea is featured in the top rankings of 1970
- #71 in Top Drama Movies of 1970
- #9 in Top Fantasy Movies of 1970
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.