- Drama, Fantasy
- 129 min
- R
Rotten Tomatoes76%IMDb6.8
Rome. Before Christ. After Fellini.
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.
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Jun 20257/10
If you ever saw or read “Quo Vadis” then you will be familiar with the character of Gaius Petronius. He was one of the emperor Nero’s closest advisors and the credited author of this fantastic story of mythological excess. In this suitably outrageous Neroic drama, two close friends - “Ascito” (Hiram Keller) and “Encolpio” (Martin Potter) get into a strop about their ownership of their toy-boy “Gitone” (Max Born). Unable to reconcile, they determine to go their separate ways. The young lad chooses to go with the former man and so distraught, the latter considers suicide - but luckily an earthquake intervenes. The aftermath of the chaos sees the men separated and now we follow some of their escapades as they lurch from one debauched scenario to another equally sexually charged environment, with loads of erotic dancing, debauchery and hedonism. In due course, the three are reunited and embark on a wheeze to borrow a demigod from a sacred temple. Now that’s not a good move as he’s only a “demi” so promptly dies and that earns poor old Encolpio the enmity of the gods. Given the context of the whole film, his punishment is especially cruel but with his friend beside him, he hopes that pe
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Cast
- Martin PotterEncolpio
- Hiram KellerAscilto
- Max BornGitone
- Salvo RandoneEumolpo
- Mario RomagnoliTrimalcione
- Magali NoëlFortunata
- CapucineTrifena
- FanfullaVernacchio
- Gordon MitchellIl predone
- George EastmanMinotauro
Crew
- Federico FelliniDirector
- Federico FelliniScreenplay
- Bernardino ZapponiScreenplay
- PetroniusNovel
- Giuseppe RotunnoDirector of Photography
- Tod DockstaderOriginal Music Composer
- Ilhan MimarogluOriginal Music Composer
- Nino RotaOriginal Music Composer
- Ruggero MastroianniEditor
- Alberto GrimaldiProducer
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