Medea (1969 film)
Medea is a film by Pier Paolo Pasolini based on the ancient myth of Medea. Filmed in Greme Open Air Museums early Christian churches, it stars opera singer Maria Callas in her only film role. She does not sing in the movie.
A young man is offered up as a 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 killed and dismembered, and the villagers fertilize crops with his body and blood.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 horsemen from her village 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 fathers men are then forced to halt and retrieve the scattered pieces of his sons body, enabling Jason and Medea to escape. ........
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