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, ...
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| Melina Mercouri | ... | Maya / Medea | |
| Ellen Burstyn | ... | Brenda Collins | |
| Andréas Voutsinas | ... | Kostas | |
| Despo Diamantidou | ... | Maria | |
| Dimitris Papamichael | ... | Dimitris / Jason | |
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Giannis Voglis | ... | Edward |
| Faidon Georgitsis | ... | Ronny | |
| Betty Valassi | ... | Margaret | |
| Andreas Filippides | ... | Stathis | |
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Irene Emirza | ... | Diana |
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Panos Papaioannou | ... | Manos |
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Kostas Arzoglou | ... | Bible Student |
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Savvas Axiotis | ... | Soundman |
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Katerina Bourlou | ||
| Foteini Filosofou | |||
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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, 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, intercut with Burstyn narrating her crime.
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Melina Mercouri plays Maya, a jet-setting Greek actress who returns to her homeland to undertake the role of Medea. Searching for inspiration and clues as to how a mother could kill the children she loves, Maya discovers Brenda (Ellen Burstyn), a bible-spouting American woman serving time in an Athens prison for that very crime. The actress's jail cell meetings with the murderess lead up to the movie's climax -- a gripping, parallel sequence of Maya in rehearsal/performance of the original text in Greek and Brenda's emotional reliving of the horrific night she murdered her babies. This film brings to life the woman-scorned essence and bloody passion at the heart of Medea, awaking a 2,500 year-old classic of dramatic literature.