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The first half sums up the story of Jason and the Argonauts as they travel to Medea's barbarian land in search of the golden fleece. In fitting with the soundtrack (which features North African Tribal music), Pasolini depicts Medea's people as a tribal people who perform the ancient seasonal rituals and sacrifices to secure their harvests. Their costumes and dances are based on those of Eastern European Mummers such as the Romanian Calusari ceremonies and their counterparts in the Balkans.

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A young man is offered up as a gruesome human sacrifice and his organs and blood are sprinkled over the crops in a ritual sparagmos. The victim is bound to a wooden structure and the villagers not only fertilize crops with his body and blood but also consume them. The young man has been offered up is a substitute for his brother Absyrtus, who is whipped by the tribal priests at the same time so that his suffering parallels that of the chosen royal scapegoat.

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Meanwhile, Jason and his comrades have arrived and are shown pillaging the locals. Medea awakens her brother Absyrtus to help her steal the Golden Fleece, which they then deliver to Jason. The Argonauts hastily depart from Colchis, with Medea's father in hot pursuit. When the Colchians begin closing in, Medea kills her brother and dismembers his body, in a manner similar to the sacrificial victim of the sparagmos ritual earlier. Her father's men are then forced to halt and retrieve the scattered pieces of his son's body, enabling Jason and Medea to escape.

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When they return to Jason's homeland as husband and wife, Medea is stripped of her ornate barbarian garb and dressed in the garments of a traditional Greek housewife. The film generally follows the plot of the play by Euripides from this point onward, though it takes some liberties with the chronology of events and deepens the human motivation. Jason has two sons by Medea, but he later decides to opt out of his union with her in favor of a more lucrative and culturally acceptable marriage to the Corinthian princess Glauce. Enraged at his betrayal and the disinheritance of his children, Medea plots revenge against Jason and his new bride and sends Glauce a robe bewitched with magic herbs.

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Here Pasolini introduces two versions of the destruction of Glauce and her father. The first follows the traditional legend and is possibly a vision of how Medea would like Glauce to die, as her face is superimposed over several shots. When the princess puts on the robe, the garment catches fire and burns her alive, along with her father Creon, who attempts to douse the flames.

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Italian Synopsis
In Grecia a Corinto il re Esone è stato spodestato dal fratellastro Pelia, il quale governa con crudeltà e spietatezza, cercando in tutti i modi di uccidere l'erede al trono Giasone, ora mandato dal suo protettore Chirone. In Scizia è stata raccolta una potente reliquia chiamata Vello d'oro, tempo prima merce di Frisso. La pelle d'oro apparteneva al caprone sacro inviato dagli dei per salvare il fanciullo e la sorella Elle da morte certa ed aveva attraversato in volo tutto l'Ellesponto, mare che prenderà questo nome dalla sorella Elle che ci cadrà purtroppo, venendo inghiottita.

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Giunto nella terra Colchide, Frisso verrà ucciso e la capra sarà scuoiata e la pelle data in dono ad Ares.
Dopo questo prologo in cui il centauro Chirone spiega ad un fanciullo (il giovane Giasone) in maniera filosofica anche l'armonia e l'equilibrio della natura, viene presentata la superba figura di Medea, sovrana della Colchide, una terra brutale e piena di usanze grottesche che ospita la reliquia del Vello d'oro. Dall'altra parte del mondo in Grecia, Giasone, divenuto grande, viene spedito dal suo crudele zio a recuperare la preziosa pelliccia di capra, cosicché possa riavere il regno di Corinto.

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Un giorno mentre Medea sta pregando la reliquia nel tempio vede per la prima volta l'eroe greco, giunto nel frattempo a bordo di una zattera con una manciata di uomini, e se ne innamora perdutamente, così tanto da chiedere aiuto al fratello per rubare il Vello d'oro e partire con Giasone per la Grecia. Il re lo viene a sapere e si getta all'inseguimento della figlia la quale però, per rallentarlo, uccide il fratello e lo taglia in tanti pezzi per costringere l'uomo a fermarsi più volte. Medea è un film italiano del 1969 diretto da Pier Paolo Pasolini, basato sull’omonima tragedia di Euripide e interpretato da Maria Callas. Il film, i cui esterni vennero girati in Turchia, in Siria e a Grado ebbe una positiva accoglienza da parte della critica anche se, sotto il profilo commerciale, non riscosse il successo sperato.

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Special Features
• On the set of " Medea"
• Interview to Carlo Lizzani
• Director's Filmography
• Director's Biography
• Digital Restoration
• Critical Anthology

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