Satyricon (film)

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Satyricon

Directed by	Federico Fellini
Produced by	Alberto Grimaldi
Written by	Bernardino Zapponi Federico Fellini
Starring	Martin Potter Hiram Keller Max Born Salvo Randone Magali Noel Alain Cuny Lucia Bose Tonya Lopert Gordon Mitchell Capucine
Music by	Nino Rota
Cinematography	Giuseppe Rotunno
Editing by	Ruggero Mastroianni
Release date(s)	September 3, 1969
Running time	129 min.
Language	Latin, Italian
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This article is about the film. For other uses see Satyricon (disambiguation).

Satyricon (Fellini Satyricon) is a 1969 film by Federico Fellini. It is loosely based on the Petronius novel Satyricon, a series of bawdy and satirical episodes written during the reign of the emperor Nero and set in imperial Rome. The original text survives only in large fragments, and instead of trying to connect and "patch up" the fragments which survived, Fellini decided to present the material in a series of somewhat disjointed and dislocated scenes. Though the two protagonists, Encolpius (Martin Potter) and Ascyltus (Hiram Keller), reappear throughout, the characters and locations surrounding them change unexpectedly. This intentional technique of fragmentation conveys Fellini's view of both the original text and the nature of history itself, and is echoed visually in the film's final shot of a ruined villa whose walls, painted with frescoes of the scenes we have just seen, are crumbling, fading and incomplete. Fellini's interest in Carl Jung's theory of the collective unconscious is also on display with an abundance of archetypes in highly dreamlike settings.

A year prior to the release of the film had already seen another Satyricon film (directed by Gian Luigi Polidoro) – hence the addition of "Fellini" to the title. A "making-of" film shot by Gideo Bachman, entitled Ciao Federico – Fellini directs Satyricon is also available.

[edit] External links

Fellini Satyricon at the Internet Movie Database
Ciao Federico – Fellini directs Satyricon at the Internet Movie Database
Satyricon (1968) at the Internet Movie Database
Review of Satyricon

Federico Fellini
Variety Lights (1950) • The White Sheik (1951) • I Vitelloni (1953) • L'Amore in Città (1953) • La Strada (1954) • Il bidone (1955) • Nights of Cabiria (1957) • La Dolce Vita (1960) • Boccaccio '70 (1962) • 8½ (1963) • Juliet of the Spirits (1965) • Satyricon (1969) • I Clowns (1970) • Roma (1972) • Amarcord (1973) • Fellini's Casanova (1976) • Prova d'orchestra (1979) • City of Women (1980) • And the Ship Sails On (1983) • Ginger and Fred (1986) • Intervista (1987) • La voce della luna (1990)

Federico Fellini

Variety Lights (1950) • The White Sheik (1951) • I Vitelloni (1953) • L'Amore in Città (1953) • La Strada (1954) • Il bidone (1955) • Nights of Cabiria (1957) • La Dolce Vita (1960) • Boccaccio '70 (1962) • 8½ (1963) • Juliet of the Spirits (1965) • Satyricon (1969) • I Clowns (1970) • Roma (1972) • Amarcord (1973) • Fellini's Casanova (1976) • Prova d'orchestra (1979) • City of Women (1980) • And the Ship Sails On (1983) • Ginger and Fred (1986) • Intervista (1987) • La voce della luna (1990)