Medea is a powerful witch who gets revenge on her cheating husband Jason by killing their children.
Acting
Krook's Medea freezes your blood without raising her voice.
Direction
Hjelm lets the horror unfold like inevitable Greek weather.
Production
Television theater format strips it raw — no escape.
Director
Keve Hjelm
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Swedish television's first major classical drama production, shot in a single studio with minimal sets.
Euripides' original shocked Athens by giving Medea interior life; Krook's performance channels that radical sympathy 2,400 years later.
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