Medea Poster

Medea 1989

★ 6.579 votes76 min📅 1989-08-08

"She sacrifices something she loves, to harm someone who perhaps she loves even more."

Overview

Medea after having helped the man she loves, Jason, and given him to birth two children, is driven into fury and vengeful madness after he decides to abandon her to become successor to the throne by marring Glauce, the daughter of Creon, king of Corinth.

Director: Lars von Trier

Cast

Udo Kier
Udo Kier
Jason
Kirsten Olesen
Kirsten Olesen
Medea
Henning Jensen
Henning Jensen
Kreon
Solbjørg Højfeldt
Solbjørg Højfeldt
Ammen
Preben Lerdorff Rye
Preben Lerdorff Rye
Paedragon
Baard Owe
Baard Owe
Aiceus
Ludmilla Glinska
Glauce
Vera Gebuhr
Vera Gebuhr
Aeldre Terne
Jonny Kilde
Store Dreng
Richard Kilde
Lille Dreng