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.

Martin Potter
as Encolpio

Hiram Keller
as Ascilto

Max Born
as Gitone

Salvo Randone
as Eumolpo

Mario Romagnoli
as Trimalcione

Magali Noël
as Fortunata

Capucine
as Trifena

Fanfulla
as Vernacchio

Gordon Mitchell
as Il predone

George Eastman
as Minotauro
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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...