01 Jan 1981
Maškaráda
A poetic-psychological composition depicting the fate of an elderly man who succumbed to false social information, which drove him to a tragic act.

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.
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.

Medea

Creonte

Chirone

Giasone

Glauce

Pelias
Second Centaur

Apsirto, Medea's Brother
Argonaut
Jason at 5
Jason at 13
Argonaut
Argonaut

Wet Nurse

Woman

Glauce's Maid

Servant of Glauce (uncredited)

(uncredited)
01 Jan 1981
A poetic-psychological composition depicting the fate of an elderly man who succumbed to false social information, which drove him to a tragic act.
01 Jan 1978
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01 Jan 1978
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