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Director:
Federico Fellini
Writers:
Petronius (book)
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Release Date:
11 March 1970 (USA) See more »
Genre:
Drama | Fantasy See more »
Tagline:
Rome. Before Christ. After Fellini.
Plot:
In first century Rome, two student friends, Encolpio and Ascilto, argue about ownership of the boy Gitone... See more » | Full synopsis »
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Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 5 wins & 2 nominations See more »
NewsDesk:
(4 articles)
Top Commentaries for the week of March 18th
 (From Trailers from Hell. 25 March 2012, 1:24 PM, PDT)
Alfredo Bini obituary
 (From The Guardian - Film News. 2 November 2010, 11:43 AM, PDT)
'Inception': Only good if you're young?
 (From EW.com - PopWatch. 3 August 2010, 2:15 PM, PDT)
User Reviews:
Ahem... See more (82 total) »

Cast

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Martin Potter ... Encolpio

Hiram Keller ... Ascilto
Max Born ... Gitone
Salvo Randone ... Eumolpo
Mario Romagnoli ... Trimalcione (as Il Moro)

Magali Noël ... Fortunata

Capucine ... Trifena
Alain Cuny ... Lica
Fanfulla ... Vernacchio
Danika La Loggia ... Scintilla
Giuseppe Sanvitale ... Abinna
Genius ... Liberto arricchito
Lucia Bosé ... La matrona
Joseph Wheeler ... Il suicida
Hylette Adolphe ... La schiavetta
Tanya Lopert ... L'imperatore

Gordon Mitchell ... Il predone
George Eastman ... Minotauro (as Luigi Montefiori)
Marcello Di Falco ... Proconsole
Elisa Mainardi ... Arianna
Donyale Luna ... Enotea
Carlo Giordana ... Il capitano
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Marcello Bonini Olas ... Man speaking latin in Suburra (scenes deleted)
Ottaviano Dell'Acqua

Carole André ... (uncredited)
Ennio Antonelli ... Swine Minder (uncredited)
Gigi Ballista ... (uncredited)
Luigi Battaglia ... Transvestite (uncredited)
Dakar ... Black Slave (uncredited)
Maria De Sisti ... Fat Woman (uncredited)
Francesco Di Giacomo ... Musician (uncredited)
Sandro Dori ... Man in Vernacchio Theatre (uncredited)

Jessica Dublin ... (uncredited)
Tania Duckworth ... Brothel Girl (uncredited)
Elio Gigante ... Owner of Garden of Delights (uncredited)
Veriano Ginesi ... Guest of Trimalcione (uncredited)
Wolfgang Hillinger ... Soldier at Tomb (uncredited)
Mara Krupp ... Participant in Orgy Sequence (uncredited)
Gabriel Lagay ... Slave (uncredited)
Franco Leo ... (uncredited)

Irina Maleeva ... L'ancella (uncredited)
Elizabetta Moscatelli ... (uncredited)
Suleiman Ali Nashnush ... Tryphaena's Attendant (uncredited)
Osiride Pevarello ... Soldier Killing the Emperor (uncredited)
Lorenzo Piani ... Nymphomaniac's Husband (uncredited)
Antonia Pietrosi ... Wife of Ephesus (uncredited)
Amerigo Santarelli ... Orgy Participant (uncredited)
Sibilla Sedat ... Nymphomaniac (uncredited)
Richard Simmons ... Nymphomaniac's Slave (unconfirmed) (uncredited)
Alvaro Vitali ... Blue-Faced 'Emperor' (uncredited)
Vittorio Vittori ... Notary (uncredited)
Luigi Zerbinati ... Nymphomaniac's Slave (uncredited)
Renato Zero ... Extra (uncredited)
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Directed by
Federico Fellini 
 
Writing credits
Petronius (book "Satyricon")

Federico Fellini (writer) &
Bernardino Zapponi (writer)

Brunello Rondi (additional screenplay)

Produced by
Alberto Grimaldi .... producer
 
Original Music by
Tod Dockstader 
Ilhan Mimaroglu 
Nino Rota 
Andrew Rudin 
 
Cinematography by
Giuseppe Rotunno 
 
Film Editing by
Ruggero Mastroianni 
 
Casting by
Enzo Provenzale 
 
Production Design by
Luigi Scaccianoce 
 
Art Direction by
Giorgio Giovannini 
Luigi Scaccianoce 
 
Costume Design by
Danilo Donati 
 
Makeup Department
Rino Carboni .... makeup artist
Luciano Vito .... hair stylist
 
Production Management
Roberto Cocco .... production manager
Lamberto Pippia .... production supervisor
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Liliane Betti .... second assistant director
Maurizio Mein .... assistant director
 
Art Department
Roberto Granieri .... property master
Luigi Sergianni .... construction manager
Italo Tomassi .... pictorial supervisor
Dante Ferretti .... assistant art director (uncredited)
 
Stunts
Nazzareno Zamperla .... stunt coordinator
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Giuseppe Maccari .... camera operator
Piero Servo .... first assistant camera
 
Editorial Department
Enzo Ocone .... supervising editor
Adriana Olasio .... assistant editor
 
Other crew
Luca Canali .... creative consultant (as Prof. Luca Canali)
Norma Giacchero .... continuity
Ettore Paratore .... creative consultant (as Prof. Ettore Paratore)
Eugene Walter .... assistant: Fellini (translator)
 

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
"Fellini Satyricon" - UK, USA
"Satyricon" - International (English title) (short title)
"The Degenerates" -
"Satyricon" - Argentina, Peru
"Fellini - Satyricon" - Hungary (imdb display title)
"Fellini Satiricon" - Spain (imdb display title)
"Fellini Satyricon" - Denmark (imdb display title)
"Fellinin Satyricon" - Finland
"Fellinis Satyricon" - West Germany
"Satyricon" - France
"Satyricon" - Poland (imdb display title)
"Satyricon de Fellini" - Brazil
"Satyrikon" - Greece (transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title)
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Parents Guide:
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Runtime:
128 min
Country:
Italy
Language:
Italian | Latin
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 See more »
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Italy:VM18 | Portugal:M/16 | Peru:18 | Singapore:R21 | Brazil:16 | Argentina:18 | Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | USA:R | West Germany:16
Filming Locations:
Cinecittà Studios, Cinecittà, Rome, Lazio, ItalySee more »
Company:
Produzioni Europee Associati (PEA)See more »

Did You Know?

Trivia:
According to an episode of the NPR-WNYC radio program "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" (broadcast January 15, 2011), future fitness guru Richard Simmons is in this film. An American student living in Rome in the late 1960's, he was cast as an obese nobleman in the banquet scene.See more »
Quotes:
Soldier at Tomb:They've stolen the hanged man! While I was with you, the thief's family took him away! I know what punishment I'll get... a horrible death. Why should I wait for it? I'd rather die by my own hands.
[pulls his sword out and is about to stab himself]
Wife of Ephesus:[stops him] No! No, my dear... To lose the two men in my life, one after the other, would be too much...
Wife of Ephesus:[looks at the corpse of her husband] Better to hang a dead husband than to lose a living lover.
[the couple replace the missing hanged corpse with the corpse of her husband]
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Federico Fellini - un autoritratto ritrovato (2000)See more »

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51 out of 83 people found the following review useful.
Ahem..., 14 July 2003
Author: Franck from Soyland

"Satyricon" is among the weirdest and most colorful, larger-than-life movies I've ever seen, along with Erasurehead, Erendira, Santa sangre, Naked lunch... If you don't like these, don't even try "Satyricon".

On one hand, its many flaws are rather upsetting. The out-of-sync lipping (bad post-sync), the fact that the movie neither really tells a story nor evocates sensible moral or philosophical concepts... so one may say it's actually a dull movie. The violence in this movie doesn't seem to make real sense, neither does the homosexuality, neither does the "romanian decadence" portrait.

On the other hand, the scenography, the sets, the costumes and makup are among the most dazzling ones you'll ever see in cinema, and the cinematography... well... maybe the BEST one you'll ever see. I can't think of any another movie able to compete with "Satyricon"'s mindblowing cinematography. Each scene is a terrific picture, with several visual layers, extraordinary lights and focuses, a lot of invention, of visual flair, and the overall technical mastery is stunning.

The result is something mesmerizing for some, totally disgusting for others. I have to say I'm more on the mesmerized side, because I was mainly focused on the visual/meditative aspects of the movie, not on the narrative ones.

If you're really into cinema, I mean as an artistic media more than as entertainment, you MUST see "Satyricon", as it's to my sense the most *visually* outstanding movie ever made. Be prepared for some disappointment about the movie as a whole, though...

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