Satiricosissimo

Satiricosissimo is a 1970 Italian comedy film directed by Mariano Laurenti starring the comic duo Franco and Ciccio. It is a parody of the 1969 Federico Fellini film Fellini Satyricon.[1][2][3]

Satiricosissimo
Directed byMariano Laurenti
Written byRoberto Gianviti
Dino Verde
Produced byVittorio Martino
Leo Cevenini
StarringFranco Franchi
Ciccio Ingrassia
Edwige Fenech
CinematographyTino Santoni
Edited byGiuliana Attenni
Music byCarlo Rustichelli
Distributed byVariety Distribution
Release date
  • 1970 (1970)
Running time
89 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

Plot summary

Ciccio loves very much the novel Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter, although his friend Franco does not understand him. Ciccio also saw the famous Federico Fellini's film about the novel, and he goes with Franco in a country inn, near Rome. The director, seeing the success of the film by Fellini, does furnish the inn in the fashion of ancient Rome. Even the guests and the waiters are dressed to the ancient, and so do Franco and Ciccio, but they break a jar of wine and are hunted. The two fall asleep in a clearing, and wake up in the Rome of the Emperor Nero.

Franco and Ciccio risk being killed, and so they're saved just by writer Petronius who hire them as servants. Petronius is the best adviser to Nero, who is scared because he believes that his mother Agrippina wants to kill him. Franco and Ciccio therefore must watch over the life of the emperor, but they soon discover that the killer who wants to murder Nero is not the mother.

Cast

Reception

An Italian review of the time finds it is "a sloppy film, whose elementary comic quality relies on double entendres, vulgar jokes, references to recent political events and above all on the crude resources of the two characters in the domain of mime.''[4]

References
  1. Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano: I film. Gremese, 1991. ISBN 8876059695.
  2. Marco Giusti (1999). Dizionario dei film italiani stracult. Sperling & Kupfer. ISBN 8820029197.
  3. Paolo Mereghetti. Il Mereghetti. B.C. Dalai Editore, 2010. ISBN 8860736269.
  4. SATIRICOSISSIMO (in Italian), retrieved 2023-04-07


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