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Fellini Satyricon, or simply Satyricon, is a 1969 Italian film written and directed by Federico Fellini and loosely based on Petronius's work Satyricon, written during the reign of Emperor Nero and set in Imperial Rome.
Mar 11, 1970 · Fellini Satyricon: Directed by Federico Fellini. With Martin Potter, Hiram Keller, Max Born, Salvo Randone. A series of disjointed mythical tales set in first-century Rome.
Fellini Satyricon, or simply Satyricon, is a 1969 Italian fantasy drama film written and directed by Federico Fellini and loosely based on Petronius's work S...
HD Retro Trailers. 110K subscribers. Subscribed. 969. 124K views 5 years ago. Directed by Federico Fellini with Martin Potter, Hiram Keller, Max Born and Salvo Randone.
An episodic barrage of sexual licentiousness, godless violence, and eye-catching grotesquerie, Fellini Satyricon follows the exploits of two pansexual young men—the handsome scholar Encolpius and his vulgar, insatiably lusty friend Ascyltus—as they move through a landscape of free-form pagan excess.
The movie is based on a book that retold degenerate versions of Roman and Greek myth. Petronius' Satyricon , written at the time of Nero, was lost for centuries and found in a fragmented form, which Fellini uses to explain his own fragmented movie; both book and film end in mid-sentence.
Federico Fellini describes his "Fellini Satyricon" as a science-fiction film, but one in which we journey to the past rather than to the future. Directors are notoriously unreliable as sources of opinions about their own movies, but in this case I think Fellini is dead right.
Summaries. A series of disjointed mythical tales set in first-century Rome. In first-century Rome, two student friends, Encolpio and Ascilto, argue about ownership of the boy Gitone, divide their belongings, and split up. and split up. Allowed to choose who he goes with, the boy chooses Ascilto.
It is like a long dream full of adventures where he episodes differ in terms of quality and taste. Fellini, in any case, discovered Ancient Rome in a very original way, far from banalities and clichés. Satyricon does include monsters and shivering, and death dimension is always present.
Fellini Satyricon, or simply Satyricon, is a 1969 Italian film written and directed by Federico Fellini and loosely based on Petronius's work Satyricon, written during the reign of Emperor Nero and set in Imperial Rome.
