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Kravgi gynaikon

  • 19781978
  • RR
  • 1h 50m
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6.8/10
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Kravgi gynaikon (1978)
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Melina Mercouri plays an actress who is attempting a comeback with a staging of the Greek tragedy "Medea" (about a woman who kills her children) in her native Greece. As a publicity stunt, s... Read allMelina Mercouri plays an actress who is attempting a comeback with a staging of the Greek tragedy "Medea" (about a woman who kills her children) in her native Greece. As a publicity stunt, she arranges a meeting with an American woman (Ellen Burstyn) who is serving a prison term ... Read allMelina Mercouri plays an actress who is attempting a comeback with a staging of the Greek tragedy "Medea" (about a woman who kills her children) in her native Greece. As a publicity stunt, she arranges a meeting with an American woman (Ellen Burstyn) who is serving a prison term for killing her own children. Features Mercouri performing "Medea" in the original, interc... Read all
IMDb RATING
6.8/10
375
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    • Jules Dassin
    • Jules Dassin
    • Euripides(play "Mideia")
    • Minos Volanakis(adaptation)
  • Stars
    • Melina Mercouri
    • Ellen Burstyn
    • Andréas Voutsinas
    • Jules Dassin
    • Jules Dassin
    • Euripides(play "Mideia")
    • Minos Volanakis(adaptation)
  • Stars
    • Melina Mercouri
    • Ellen Burstyn
    • Andréas Voutsinas
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    • 11User reviews
    • 2Critic reviews
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    Ellen Burstyn and Melina Mercouri in Kravgi gynaikon (1978)
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    Melina Mercouri
    Melina Mercouri
    • Maya…
    Ellen Burstyn
    Ellen Burstyn
    • Brenda Collins
    Andréas Voutsinas
    Andréas Voutsinas
    • Kostas
    Despo Diamantidou
    Despo Diamantidou
    • Maria
    Dimitris Papamichael
    Dimitris Papamichael
    • Dimitris…
    Giannis Voglis
    Giannis Voglis
    • Edward
    Faidon Georgitsis
    Faidon Georgitsis
    • Ronny
    Betty Valassi
    Betty Valassi
    • Margaret
    Andreas Filippides
    Andreas Filippides
    • Stathis
    Irene Emirza
    • Diana
    Panos Papaioannou
    • Manos
    Kostas Arzoglou
    Kostas Arzoglou
    • Bible Student
    Savvas Axiotis
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    • Soundman
    Katerina Bourlou
    Katerina Bourlou
    • Medea Chorus
    Foteini Filosofou
    Foteini Filosofou
    • Medea Chorus
    Rea Fortouna
    • Medea Chorus
    Nikos Galiatsos
    • Lighting Man
    Eleni Georgiadou
    • Medea Chorus
      • Jules Dassin
      • Jules Dassin
      • Euripides(play "Mideia")
      • Minos Volanakis(adaptation)
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    • Trivia
      Melina Mercuri's last movie in the big screen in a role of an actress (not as a narrator)
    • Connections
      Featured in Sneak Previews: The Wild Geese/A Dream of Passion/Goin' Coconuts/Slow Dancing in the Big City/Violette (1978)

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    9/10
    Dream of Passion is larger than ordinary life, as befits Greek Tragedies.
    See this film. It is provocative. It dares to challenge conventional ideas about womanhood, love, motherhood. It removes a level of denial that keeps us distant from the underlying truths that Greek Tragedy speaks to, especially the tale of Medea.

    We live in a society that attempts to dictate and control, through manipulation and legislation, the role of women, to punish women for being visible victims of the hidden agendas of male supremacy and chauvinism. It is a society that sadly fails to understand, much less respect the powerful, passionate love and instincts that inform and drive the feminine half of our humanity. This failure contributes to a degraded quality of life, to the violence and the pain we see around us.

    See this film. Mercouri and Burstyn are magnificent, each in her own way. They represent aspects of the feminine goddess, played out through different cultural lenses.
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    • Dec 17, 2006

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      • August 1978 (United States)
      • Greece
      • Switzerland
      • United States
      • Latin
      • English
      • Greek
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      • Bren
      • Melina Film
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    • 1 hour 50 minutes
      • Mono

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