After his young lover, Gitone, leaves him for another man, Encolpio decides to kill himself, but a sudden earthquake destroys his home before he has a chance to do so. Now wandering around Rome in the time of Nero, Encolpio encounters one bizarre and surreal scene after another.
Production
Sets so lavish they reportedly bankrupted the producer
Cinematography
Every frame looks like a rotting fresco come alive
Direction
Fellini at his most unhinged and uncompromising
Director
Federico Fellini
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Fellini allegedly fired his original costume designer for making clothes too historically accurate—he wanted 'science fiction of the past.'
The surviving Satyricon text is fragmentary, so Fellini embraced the gaps, literally filming missing sections as black screen.
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