

Satyricon
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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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $3M
- Box office
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- Language
- Italian
- love triangle
- surreal
- earthquake
- ancient rome
- male homosexuality
- wedding
- slave
- labyrinth
- debauchery
- roman bath
- 1st century
- satyricon
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Italy
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR11 Mar 1970
CzechiaCZ
- Theatrical (limited)12+Projekt 10020 Jan 2000
FranceFR
- Theatrical1219 Dec 1969
GermanyDE
- Theatrical186 Mar 1970
ItalyIT
- PremiereVenice Film Festival4 Sept 1969
- Theatrical18 Sept 1969
RussiaSU
- PremiereItalian Film Festival "City of Rimini and Cinema" (Moscow)23 Mar 1990
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Satyricon was released on 18 September 1969.
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1- C7/10
CinemaSerf
6/27/2025
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). Una…
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