Medea (1988 film)
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84% Metacritic Genre Drama Duration Language Danish | 7.2/10 IMDb 86% Rotten Tomatoes Music director Joachim Holbek Country Denmark | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 1 April 1988 Writer Euripides (play), Carl Theodor Dreyer (original screenplay), Lars von Trier (adaptation), Preben Thomsen (adaptation) Screenplay Lars von Trier, Preben Thomsen Cast Similar movies Story by Euripides, Directed by Lars von Trier, Dramas | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medea is a 1988 TV movie directed by Lars von Trier. It is based on Carl Theodor Dreyer's adaptation of Euripides' play Medea.
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Plot
King Creon of Corinth wants to secure his throne. In order to do this, he wants to marry the successful warrior Jason to his daughter Glauce. Jason accepts, but he is already married to Medea. Since Medea is known as a wise woman, Creon feels need to banish Medea and her two boys from the city. She begs him to let him stay, but he gives her only one day in order to secure the needs of the two boys.
Medea makes an agreement with the king of Athens, Aegeus, that she and the two boys can come live in Athens with his protection. She then plans to murder both Glauce and Creon and eventually her own children.
Cast
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