Ciao, Federico!
A behind-the-scenes documentary about the filming of the Federico Fellini film, "Satyricon."
Gideon Bachmann
Gideon Bachmann
Casts & Crew
Federico Fellini
Gideon Bachmann
Max Born
Capucine
Alain Cuny
Dante Ferretti
Hiram Keller
Tanya Lopert
Giulietta Masina
Sandra Milo
Magali Noël
Roman Polanski
Franco Fabrizi
Ida Fellini
Alberto Lattuada
Martin Potter
Salvo Randone
Mario Romagnoli
Barbara Steele
Sharon Tate
Romolo Valli
Lina Wertmüller
Also Directed by Gideon Bachmann
A rare behind-the-scenes view of the exploding New York “underground” in the late sixities, a turbulent time and place that was to change American culture forever. A German TV crew, led by journalist Gideon Bachmann, explores the epicenter of the sixties revolution in art, music, poetry and film and interviews the main players in the “New American Cinema,” that was born on the streets of New York. Against a backdrop of cultural upheaval in all of the arts and growing political agitation against the Vietnam War, Bachman interviews the most prominent figures in “underground film,” including Jonas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, the Kuchar Brothers and Bruce Connor, and visits the most notorious location in the New York art world of the era - Andy Warhol’s Factory - to conduct an interview with the genius of Pop Art himself.
A verité portrait of Jonas Mekas making his daily rounds, JONAS shows us the underground impresario attending a peace rally, filming in Central Park, typing up notes at the Village Voice and projecting his latest rushes at the Film-Makers' Cooperative. A true New Yorker, Mekas seems to be everywhere at once, always with a Bolex camera slung over his shoulder. In detailing these routines, director Gideon Bachmann comes away with a striking time capsule of a city bent on art.
Gideon Bachmann documents the making of Fellini Satyricon
Behind the scenes footage of Pasolini and crew filming 'Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma'.