Satyricon

  • Drama
  • Fantasy
9/18/1969
129
R

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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$3,000,000

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  • Geronimo1967

    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 Neros 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 anothe...

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