A mythical tale of love, betrayal and revenge, medea is a fascinating collision of freudian and marxist themes from italy's most controversial director'. '.strtoupper('a')dapted from the euripidean drama, pasolini's disturbing vision of personal and national conflict stars operatic legend maria callas in the title role, offering an extraordinary performance as the high priestess medea whose love is threatened by corrupt political ambition'. '.strtoupper('a') vivid and aesthetically challenging vision, medea is a complex blend of classical mythology and contemporary social criticism'. '.strtoupper('p')asolini's sense of joy, poetry and composition are a constant inspiration to me'. '.strtoupper('m')artin scorsese extra featuresdual format edition includes both the blu ray and the dvd of the film and the extraspresented in high definition and standard definitionoriginal italian language versionoptional english language duboriginal italian and english trailersillustrated booklet with critical writing, biography and film credits