Nero fiddles while Rome burns, but this time it's absolutely bonkers Italian comedy chaos.
Acting
Pippo Franco's unhinged, rubber-faced Nero
Costume
Gaudy togas that look stolen from Vegas revue
Direction
Dual directors somehow making cohesive madness
Director
Pier Francesco Pingitore
Pippo Franco
Nerone
Maria Grazia Buccella
Poppea
Paola Tedesco
Licia
Oreste Lionello
Seneca
Enrico Montesano
Petronio Arbitro
Paola Borboni
Agrippina
Gianfranco D'Angelo
Tigellino
Paolo Stoppa
San Pietro
Aldo Fabrizi
General Galba
Bombolo
Roscio
Giò Stajano
Sporio
Marina Marfoglia
Atte
Laura Troschel
Locusta
Aristide Caporale
Crazy man
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Italy's 'cinepanettone' precursor tradition, where Christmas comedies roasted sacred cows with zero reverence.
Pingitore and Castellacci were variety show veterans who treated imperial Rome like a living variety sketch.
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