Fellini's Satyricon
| Movie | |
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| German title | Fellini's Satyricon |
| Original title | Fellini - Satyricon |
| Country of production | Italy , France |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1969 |
| length | 129 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Federico Fellini |
| script | Federico Fellini based on a novel by Titus Petronius |
| production | Alberto Grimaldi |
| music |
Death of Dockstader Ilhan Mimaroglu Nino Rota Andrew Rudin |
| camera | Giuseppe Rotunno |
| cut | Ruggero Mastroianni |
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Fellini's Satyricon is a 1969 film directed by Federico Fellini . The film is based on the fragment of the satirical novel Satyricon by Titus Petronius Arbiter from around AD 60.
During the Roman Empire, the audience accompanies the student Encolpius on an odyssey through all sorts of wondrous and absurd scenes, including the Trimalchio's feast .
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Encolpius frees the pleasure boy Gitone from the hands of actors who have illegally bought him. In a jealousy scene between Encolpius and Ascyltus, both fight over Gitone, who leaves Encolpius and follows Ascyltus. In a villa near Cumae, the " Banquet of Trimalchio " follows , an uneducated, newly rich freed man (so-called Cena Trimalchionis ).
Encolpius, Ascyltus and Gitone are captured on a beach and brought to Caesar's island on a galley to die there for his enjoyment. You are set free because the Caesar is murdered in a revolution. In a temple of Hermaphroditos they murder his priests and kidnap the incarnation of the demigod. The demigod dies on the way through the desert.
After a shipwreck, the poet Eumolpus pretends to be ill and wealthy in the nearby town of Croton in order to profit from the legacy sneaks. After a fight against a gladiator disguised as a Minotaur , Encolpius suffers a severe sexual defeat from the local beauty Circe.
Encolpius recovers from it through arduous healing treatments with a fertility priestess. However, Ascyltus, who shortly before boasted of his strength, sinks to the ground, dying. The film ends with the will of the poet Eumolpus, who asks his heirs to eat his corpse. Encolpius boarded the deceased's ship and drove away.
occupation
When Federico Fellini began preparatory work for the production in 1967, the newspapers announced a blockbuster with a star cast. As recently as 1968, Der Spiegel reported that stars such as Danny Kaye , Anna Magnani , Mae West and Groucho Marx were available for supporting roles . The production team named Terence Stamp as Encolpius and Pierre Clémenti as Ascyltus . As Trimalchio was initially Gert Fröbe , later even Boris Karloff in conversation - even Bud Spencer got an offer for this role, but that he rejected for decency's sake - and as a poet Eumolpus the Oscar award winner Van Heflin .
But without exception, the desired stars were either contractually bound or otherwise prevented. It was then decided that star director Fellini should make the selection of the actors alone. But Fellini, according to his own statements, “made no difference between a famous actor and one found on the street.” When casting a role, he focused on the physiognomy of an aspirant, not on the talent for acting or the level of awareness. Regarding this approach, he himself said: “What counts is the face. A new face that I have chosen from among many can enrich the film for me, completely transform it. Once I have chosen my actors, we become friends, I fall in love with them: like a puppeteer falls in love with his puppets. "
So it happened that he chose unknown and almost inexperienced actors for the two main roles only on the basis of agency photos. Fellini even went so far as to sign protagonists off the road. He found the Trimalchio , a "gloomy, immobile Onassis, with a petrified look and the rigidity of a mummy," in a landlord of a trattoria in his favorite district of Rome. He looked for other actors among "the employees of the slaughterhouse, the gypsies who camp on the outskirts, the people from the suburbs and the so-called burini , the hulking people from the hinterland."
Nevertheless, there are at least a few actors known in the country of origin on the cast list: In addition to the internationally known Capucine, for example Alain Cuny , who became famous with Fellini's La dolce vita , the former beauty queen Lucia Bosè as well as Magali Noël , Salvo Randone and Alberto Bonucci (the one without Mention in the credits at most made a cameo ), which were firmly established in the Italian and French theater of the time and which an interested audience through numerous roles in spaghetti westerns and sandal films, at least visually not unfamiliar to Gordon Mitchell and George Eastman . The remaining actors are mostly small actors .
Language and dubbing
Fellini originally wanted to shoot the entire film in Latin , but had to drop this idea under pressure from the production company. Only a few dialogues remained, which Prof. Luca Canali had translated into Latin for him. Fellini then had these recorded in different places by two German priests from the Gregorian University , so that Latin was also alienated to the Italian audience by the German pronunciation.
The entire setting of the film turned out to be as bizarre as this measure. She always played a special role at Fellini because, unlike most of his colleagues, he shot the scenes without dialogue and only dubbed them later. He said: “I only insert the dialogues into the film after it has already been shot. The actor plays better than when he has to remember a text. This is all the more true as I often use people who are not actors and whom, so that they appear natural, I let them speak as they do in their everyday lives. "
This procedure was also favored by the fact that Fellini wanted to use professional speakers from the outset, whose voices corresponded to his own role model, for the dubbing of his actors and amateur actors selected according to their faces. So it happened that during the filming some actors prayed rows of numbers in front of themselves and others only moved their lips without making a sound. Like the extras, the main actors Potter, Keller and Born, who did not speak Italian, as well as Romagnoli, who was completely inexperienced as an actor, were dubbed, as was the experienced theater star Randone, for whom learning the dialogues was a nuisance.
Alfredo Binis Satyricon
While Fellini was still in the process of making his version, Alfredo Bini, known as the producer of Pier Paolo Pasolini's films, began a competing film, claiming that he had already made a claim to the filming of the Satyrica in 1962 . Fellini's producer Alberto Grimaldi filed a lawsuit against this project - without success. Bini shot his film in a hurry as a cheap production and mainly employed people whom Fellini had separated from over the years. Bini's film came to German cinemas in 1972 with the changed title Die Degenerierte . This in turn was reminiscent of the second distribution title under which Fellini's film was released in America: Satyricon - The Degenerates .
In order to avoid confusion with the other strip, Fellini changed the distribution title of his film from Satyricon to Fellini (s) Satyricon , under which it also appeared in Germany.
Reviews
“An opulent sheet of images overloaded with monstrosities and curiosities, which renounces dramaturgical work through in favor of a revue-like series of grotesque individual appearances. Fellini is both indignant and fascinated by the colorful, iridescent symptoms of decay of a hedonistic era, which he interprets as the nucleus of modern civilization. The stylized artificiality of the decorations and masks enables the viewer to enjoy culinary delights as well as the critical distance. "
"Fellini's 11th film is a pompous, lavish, colorful spectacle, a single great bacchanal, a gigantic fantasy game that radically breaks with all traditional and cherished notions of antiquity and instead paints the image of a pagan time that is characterized by decadence, unbridled passions, Lust, abnormalities and demons is met. Despite its unrestrained subjectivity, it is an interesting film and, thanks to its creative ingenuity, fascinating. "
Awards
Federico Fellini received an Oscar nomination for Best Director in 1971 . In 1970 the film was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in the Best Foreign Language Film category.
literature
Essays
- Athletes from the slaughterhouse . In: Der Spiegel . No. 40 , 1968, pp. 186 ( online - Sept. 30, 1968 ).
- Time-Magazine, September 12, 1969, p. 65.
Monographs
- Federico Fellini: Satyricon. Screenplay by Federico Fellini and Bernardino Zapponi . Diogenes, Zurich 1983, ISBN 3-257-20767-0
- Federico Fellini: Articles and Notes . Diogenes, Zurich 1981, ISBN 3-257-20125-7
- Claudio G. Fava, Aldo Vigano: Federico Fellini. His films, his life . Heyne, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-453-03010-9
- Axel Sütterlin: Petronius Arbiter and Federico Fellini . Lang, Frankfurt / Main et al. 1996, ISBN 3-631-49311-8
- Tullio Kezich : Fellini. A biography . Diogenes, Zurich 2005, p. 567, ISBN 3-257-06497-7
Web links
- Fellini Satyricon in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ quoted from Fellini: Essays and Notes , p. 138
- ↑ quoted from Fellini, Essays and Notes , p. 136
- ↑ quoted from Fava, Federico Fellini , p. 162
- ↑ quoted from Kezich, Fellini, p. 567
- ↑ quoted from Fellini, Essays and Notes , pp. 140f.
- ↑ Fellini's Satyricon. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband München, Review No. 118/1970