November 13th, 2015 – Medea is a 1969 film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, based on the homonymous tragedy of Euripides, starring Maria Callas, Massimo Girotti, Giuseppe Gentile, Laurent Terzieff, and Sergio Tramonti. The movie will be screened – to honor the 40th anniversary since Pasolini’s death – at the Italian Cultural Institute of Haifa on Tuesday, 17 November at 6.30pm (Rehov Meir Rutberg 12 – Haifa). The screening will be introduced by Maurizio Dessalvi, Director of the ICI. Forty years after the death of the author, in Italy and abroad, shows, special events and meetings give the public who attends the opportunity to learn and re-appreciate what an extraordinary personality he had: Pasolini was a keen observer, precursor of our time, writer, poet, author of unforgettable films, revolutionary intellectual and militant thinker. (Red)
