Fellini Satyricon (1969) [The Criterion Collection #747]

Federico Fellini’s career achieved new levels of eccentricity and brilliance with this remarkable, controversial, extremely loose adaptation of Petronius’s classical Roman satire, written during the reign of Nero. An episodic barrage of sexual licentiousness, godless violence, and eye-catching grotesquerie, Fellini Satyricon follows the exploits of two pansexual young men—the handsome scholar Encolpius and his vulgar, insatiably lusty friend Ascyltus—as they move through a landscape of free-form pagan excess. Creating apparent chaos with exquisite control, Fellini constructs a weird old world that feels like science fiction.

CAST
Encolpius Martin Potter
Ascyltus Hiram Keller
Gitón Max Born
Eumolpus Salvo Randone
Trimalchio Il Moro
Fortunata Magali Noël
Tryphaena Capucine
Lichas Alain Cuny
Vernacchio Fanfulla
Scintilla Danica la Loggia
The suicides Lucia Bosé
Joseph Wheeler
The emperor Tanya Lopert
The slave girl Hylette Adolphe
The thief Gordon Mitchell
The minotaur Luigi Montefiori
The proconsul Marcello di Folco
Arianna Elisa Mainardi
Oenothea Donyale Luna
The captain Carlo Giordana

DVD Release Date: June 23, 2015

CRiTERiON
https://www.criterion.com/films/28038-fellini-satyricon

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DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director of photography Giuseppe Rotunno, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Audio commentary featuring an adaptation of Eileen Lanouette Hughes’s memoir On the Set of “Fellini Satyricon”: A Behind-the-Scenes Diary
Ciao, Federico!, Gideon Bachmann’s hour-long documentary shot on the set of Fellini Satyricon
Archival interviews with director Federico Fellini
New interview with Rotunno
New documentary about Fellini’s adaptation of Petronius’s work, featuring interviews with classicists Luca Canali, a consultant on the film, and Joanna Paul
New interview with photographer Mary Ellen Mark about her experiences on the set and her iconic photographs of Fellini and his film
Felliniana, a presentation of Fellini Satyricon ephemera from the collection of Don Young
Trailer
New English subtitle translation