Pompeii: Eros and Myth

Pompeii: Myth and Legend' is a documentary that explores the city and history of Pompeii, one of the most mysterious cities that throughout history, has been one of the greatest influences in the world of culture and art.

This documentary is directed by Pappi Corsicato and written by the director along with Jacopo Magri and Andrea Rizzoli Jr. It tells the sory of Pompeii while it explores the Italian city. This place in surrounded by a great mystery and which has inspired artists of all kind in their cultural and artistic work. From the neoclassicist era to the contemporary era, the art has nurtured from Pompeii.

Writers, painters and cinema directors have visited the city and imagined how life used to be there. From young Picasso to Emily Dickinson and Jean Cocteau.

This documentary is not just about the famous and tragic volcanic eruption which gave Pompeii a life sentence, but it also tells how reality was back then in that beautiful city. It's people, their habits, religion, their way of experimenting pleasure... All of it and so much more builds the story Corsicato tells us.

A time travel two thousand years back which brings us myths and characters that helped Pompeii turn into the extraordinary and atemporal place that we know nowdays. Culture keeps getting inspired in the events that took place in the archaeological city in the region of Campania, in southern Italy.