Director & Narrator: Theo van Gogh
Script: Theodor Holman, Gijs van de Westelaken
Based on a play by Euripides
Photography: Thomas Kist
Editor: Léon Verkade
Music: Rainer Hensel
Sound: Leo Franssen
Production Design: Jan Rutgers
Casting: Job Gosschalk, Marc van Bree
Principal Cast: Katja Schuurman, Thijs Römer, Tara Elders, Cas Enklar, Maarten Wansink, Eric van Sauers, Marcel Hensema, Jack Wouterse
Producer: Gijs van de Westelaken
Executive Producer: Mardou Jacobs
Production: Column Productions in co-production with Van Gogh Talent and AVRO Television
Distribution: Column Productions
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Completed shortly before Dutch author and director Theo van Gogh was murdered in late 2004, this mini-series sees its creator once again assume his role as a provocateur at large who spares no one. He transposes Euripides’ gruesome tale of Medea’s infanticide to the contemporary Dutch political scene. Van Gogh’s Jason is an unscrupulous social climber resembling (also murdered) right-wing populist Pim Fortuyn; his Medea is a sacked minister’s daughter who ruthlessly takes revenge on her husband. Filmed with a shaky handheld camera, this mini series takes off into a world where moral standards seem a foreign concept.