Martin Potter
Encolpio
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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.
Jan 23, 2019 · Directed by Federico Fellini with Martin Potter, Hiram Keller, Max Born and Salvo Randone. Fellini Satyricon Blu-ray (Amazon) https://amzn.to/3wSzwd4 Fellini Satyricon Blu-ray (Criterion)...
Dec 16, 2021 · 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...
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.
Episodic and strange, Satyricon offers a hedonistic tour through an ancient Rome that exists not in history books, but from Federico Fellini's singular imagination.
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- Drama, LGBTQ+
- R
The film opens with the protagonist Encolpio, a student, who is furious with his room-mate Ascilto, who has run off with their boy-slave Gitone. Encolpio tracks down Ascilto to the baths, and during a fight Ascilto admits to having sold the boy to Vernacchio who runs a theatre.
