Fellini Satyricon

Comedy, Drama, Romance

Martin Potter	Encolpio
Hiram Keller	Ascilto
Max Born	Gitone
Salvo Randone	Eumolpo
Mario Romagnoli	Trimalcione
Magali Noël	Fortunata
Capucine 1931	Trifena
Alain Cuny	Lica
Fanfulla	Vernacchio
Danika La Loggia	Scintilla
Capucine	Trifena

Director	Federico Fellini; André Delvaux
Producer	Alberto Grimaldi
Writer	Federico Fellini; Petronius
Musician	Nino Rota

In first century Rome, two student friends, Encolpio and Ascilto, argue about ownership of the boy Gitone, divide their belongings and split up. The boy, allowed to choose who he goes with, chooses Ascilto. Only a sudden earthquake saves Encolpio from suicide. We follow Encolpio through a series of adventures, where he is eventually reunited with Ascilto, and which culminates in them helping a man kidnap a hermaphrodite demi-god from a temple. The god dies, and as punishment Encolpio becomes impotent. We then follow them in search of a cure. The film is loosely based on the book Satyricon by Gaius Petronius Arbiter, the "Arbiter of Elegance" in the court of Nero. The book has only survived in fragments, and the film reflects this by being very fragmentary itself, even stopping in mid-sentence.