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.
Medea
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.
Top Billed Cast
Maria Callas Medea
Massimo Girotti Creonte
Laurent Terzieff Chirone
Giuseppe Gentile Giasone
Margareth Clémenti Glauce
Paul Jabara Pelias
Gerard Weiss Second Centaur
Sergio Tramonti Apsirto, Medea's Brother
Luigi Barbini Argonaut
Gian Paolo Durgar Luigi Masironi Jason at 5
Michelangelo Masironi Jason at 13
Gianni Brandizi Argonaut
Franco Jacobbi Argonaut
Annamaria Chio Wet Nurse
Piera Degli Esposti Woman
Mirella Pamphili Graziella Chiarcossi Glauce's Maid
Rossana Canghiari Servant of Glauce (uncredited)
Maria Cumani Quasimodo (uncredited)
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