Medea

Pier Paolo Pasolini (director, screenwriter)
Mario Tursi (photographer)
Maria Callas, Massimo Girotti (starring)

Rome: Euro International Film, 1969. Vintage pressbook for the 1969 Italian film. Text in Italian.

Based on Euripides' tragedy, first performed in 431 BC, which was in turn based on the Greek myth of Medea, who famously killed her sons as revenge against her unfaithful husband. The sole feature film appearance of noted opera legend Maria Callas, one in which she curiously does not sing.

Set in Greece, shot on location in Goreme, Turkey.

13 x 12.25 inches. Lightly worn to the corners, else Near Fine.


[Book #151642]