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