Medea / The Walls of Sana'a ( Medée / Le Mura di Sana'a )

Medea / The Walls of Sana'a (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Medée / Le Mura di Sana'a
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Italy ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
124 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Biographies
Featurette
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Booklet
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1969 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Pier Paolo Pasolini

Written By:
Euripides
Pier Paolo Pasolini

Actors:
Maria Callas ..... Medea
Massimo Girotti ..... King Kresus / Creonte
Laurent Terzieff ..... Centaur
Giuseppe Gentile ..... Jason
Margareth Clémenti ..... Glauce (as Margareth Clementi)
Paul Jabara ..... Pelias
Gerard Weiss ..... Second centaur
Sergio Tramonti ..... Apsirto, Medea's brother
Luigi Barbini ..... Argonaut
Gian Paolo Durgar ..... Wet-nurse (as Anna Maria Chio)
Luigi Masironi
Michelangelo Masironi
Gianni Bradizi
Franco Jacobbi
Annamaria Chio

Synopsis:

Medea (1969)

To win the kingdom his uncle took from his father, Jason must steal the golden fleece from the land of barbarians, where Medea is royalty and a powerful sorceress, where human sacrifice helps crops to grow. Medea sees Jason and swoons, then enlists her brother's aid to take the fleece. She then murders her brother and becomes Jason's lover. Back in Greece, the king keeps the throne, the fleece has no power, and Medea lives an exile's life, respected but feared, abandoned by Jason. When she learns he's to marry the king's daughter, Medea tames her emotions and sends gifts via her sons; then, loss overwhelms her and she unleashes a fire storm on the king, the bride, and Jason.

The Walls of Sana'a (1970)

The Walls of Sana'a is a documentary film addressed to UNESCO. Pasolini's appeal was accepted and in 1986 for his precious artistic old town of Sana'a is a UNESCO world heritage.

Medea (1969)

Put in the coldest possible terms, Medea is the story of a woman who gets sore at her husband and kills her children to get even. Greek opera diva Maria Callas is certainly in her element as Medea in this 1970 film version of the venerable theatrical piece, with Giuseppe Gentili as her husband Jason and Massimo Girotti as her father, King Creon. When Jason announces that he's prepared to bigamously marry princess Glauce (Margareth Clementi), she exacts her bloody revenge. Despite the excess verbiage and his notoriously loquacious leading lady, director Pier Paolo Pasolini conveys most of Medea's plotline visually.

Medea (1969)

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.

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