Medea is an intelligent, highly educated woman who gives up on her dreams when she falls for rich businessman Alexei. When the pair have two children, she patiently waits for him to divorce his wife, and as he decides to emigrate from Russia to Israel, she meekly follows him. But when he shuns her for having committed a crime to protect him, her blind love turns into burning rage.
Acting
Tinatin Dalakishvili's eyes do everything the script won't say.
Direction
Zeldovich frames wealth like a disease you can't stop touching.
Cinematography
Moscow's gray opulence vs. Israel's blinding emptiness.
Director
Aleksandr Zeldovich
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Zeldovich updates Euripides for post-Soviet oligarch culture, where Medea's foreignness and intelligence make her disposable to new Russian 'nobility.'
The 3.3 TMDB score reflects how thoroughly this film rejects catharsis—audiences punished it for not letting them feel better.
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