Cri de femmes

Original title: Kravgi gynaikon

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Melina Mercouri plays an actress who is attempting a comeback with a staging of Greek tragedy "Medea".Melina Mercouri plays an actress who is attempting a comeback with a staging of Greek tragedy "Medea".Melina Mercouri plays an actress who is attempting a comeback with a staging of Greek tragedy "Medea".

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6.8/10

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Awards
- 5 nominations total

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Trivia
Melina Mercuri's last movie in the big screen in a role of an actress (not as a narrator)

Connections
Featured in Sneak Previews: The Wild Geese/A Dream of Passion/Goin' Coconuts/Slow Dancing in the Big City/Violette (1978)

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10/10

An actress prepares to perform Medea...

Melina Mercouri plays Maya, a jet-setting Greek actress who returns to her homeland to undertake the role of Medea. Searching for inspiration and clues as to how a mother could kill the children she loves, Maya discovers Brenda (Ellen Burstyn), a bible-spouting American woman serving time in an Athens prison for that very crime. The actress's jail cell meetings with the murderess lead up to the movie's climax -- a gripping, parallel sequence of Maya in rehearsal/performance of the original text in Greek and Brenda's emotional reliving of the horrific night she murdered her babies. This film brings to life the woman-scorned essence and bloody passion at the heart of Medea, awaking a 2,500 year-old classic of dramatic literature.