Medea (1988 film)

Medea

Directed by	Lars von Trier
Screenplay by	Carl Theodor Dreyer
Based on	Medea by Euripides
Starring	Udo Kier Kirsten Olesen Henning Jensen
Cinematography	Sejr Brockmann
Edited by	Finnur Sveinsson
Distributed by	Danmarks Radio
Release dates	1 April 1988
Running time	76 minutes
Country	Denmark
Language	Danish

Medea is a 1988 TV movie directed by Lars von Trier. It is based on Carl Theodor Dreyer's adaptation of Euripides' play Medea.

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

Udo Kier: Jason
Kirsten Olesen: Medea
Henning Jensen: Creon
Solbjørg Højfeldt: Nurse
Preben Lerdorff Rye: Pedagog
Baard Owe: Aegeus
Ludmilla Glinska: Glauce
Vera Gebuhr: Old chaperone
Jonny Kilde: Old boy
Richard Kilde: Young boy
Dick Kaysø: Voice of Jason
Mette Munk Plum: Voice of Glauce

External links

Medea at the Internet Movie Database

Lars von Trier

Filmography

Feature films	Images of Liberation (1982) The Element of Crime (1984) Epidemic (1987) Europa (1991) Breaking the Waves (1996) The Idiots (1998) Dancer in the Dark (2000) Dogville (2003) Manderlay (2005) The Boss of It All (2006) Antichrist (2009) Melancholia (2011) Nymphomaniac (2013)

Co-directed	The Five Obstructions (with Jørgen Leth, 2003)

Television	Medea (1988) The Kingdom (1994)

Short films	The Orchid Gardener (1977) "Occupations" in To Each His Own Cinema (2007) Dimension (2010)

Related articles	Dogme 95 Europa trilogy

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Films	The President (1919) The Parson's Widow (1920) Leaves from Satan's Book (1921) Michael (1924) Master of the House (1925) Bride of Glomdal (1926) The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) Vampyr (1932) Day of Wrath (1943) Ordet (1955) Gertrud (1964)

Related topics	Medea Carl Th. Dreyer: My Metier

Medea

Family	Aeëtes (father) Chalciope (sister) Apsyrtus (brother) Jason (1st husband) Aegeus (2nd husband) Mermeros and Pheres (sons) Alcimenes and Tisander (sons) Medus (son) Thessalus (son)

Films	A Dream of Passion (1978) Medea (1969) Medea (1988) Médée (2001) Medea Miracle (2007)

Operas	Médée (1693, Charpentier) Medea (1775, Benda) Médée (1797, Cherubini) Medea in Corinto (1813, Mayr) Medea (1843, Pacini) Medea (2010, Reimann)

Plays	Medea (431 BC) Médée (1946) The Hungry Woman (1995)

Ballets	Jason et Médée (1763) La hija de Cólquide (1944) Medea (1947)

Musicals	Medea, the Musical (1994) Marie Christine (1999)

Music	Medea's Dance of Vengeance (1956)

Art	Medea (painting) Jason and Medea (painting) Medea statue

Other depictions	Medea (character) "Medea Culpa"

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