The White Sheik ( Lo sceicco bianco )

The White Sheik (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Lo sceicco bianco
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Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 2&4 )

Running Time:
85 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Black & White

Movie filmed in 1952 and produced in:
Italy ( Italy, Greece )

Directed By:
Federico Fellini

Written By:
Michelangelo Antonioni
Federico Fellini

Actors:
Alberto Sordi ..... Fernando Rivoli - il sceicco bianco
Brunella Bovo ..... Wanda Giardino Cavalli
Leopoldo Trieste ..... Ivan Cavalli
Giulietta Masina ..... Cabiria - La prostituta
Lilia Landi ..... Felga - La zingara del fotoromanzo
Ernesto Almirante ..... Dottore Fortuna - il regista del fotoromanzo
Fanny Marchiò ..... Marilena Alba Vellardi
Gina Mascetti ..... Aida Rivoli - La moglie di Fernando
Jole Silvani ..... Furio
Enzo Maggio ..... Man on the beach
Anna Primula ..... Uncle of Ivan
Mimo Billi
Armando Libianchi
Ugo Attanasio
Giulio Moreschi

Synopsis:

The first two days of a marriage. Ivan, a punctilious clerk brings his virginal bride to Rome for a honeymoon, an audience with the Pope, and to present her to his uncle. They arrive early in the morning, and he has time for a nap. She sneaks off to find the offices of a romance magazine she reads religiously: she wants to meet "The White Sheik," the hero of a soap-opera photo strip. Star-struck, she ends up 20 miles from Rome, alone on a boat with the sheik. A distraught Ivan covers for her, claiming she's ill. That night, each wanders the streets, she tempted by suicide, he by prostitutes. The next day, at 11, is their papal audience. Can things still right themselves?

Young newlyweds Ivan Cavalli (Leopoldo Trieste) and Wanda (Brunella Bovo) go to Rome on a dull honeymoon to meet with the papal father and a gaggle of family relations. Wandas favorite comic strip, The White Sheik, originates in Rome and while her husband naps before their family duties begin, she sneaks out to the studio where the comic strip is managed to try to meet her matinee idol who portrays the White Sheik, Fernando Rivoli (Alberto Sordi) but gets included in the daily location shooting some twenty miles from the city. On the excursion Wanda experiences what location shooting is like for these free-spirited actors and the young virgin is impressed when Rivoli attempts to make love to her. Meanwhile back in Rome Ivan deals with his relatives who are eager to meet his new young bride, suffering many thoughts of heartache as to why Wanda would abandon him, the young husband invents a cover story to buy time after contacting the Police to file a missing-person report. Wanda is so alluring to Rivoli that she is hired as one of the support cast but runs away when Rivoli's overbearing wife appears and is left behind when the cast and crew return to Rome. In Rome Ivan bumps into a lady of the night, Cabiria (Giulietta Masina) and when he returns the next morning finally reunites with Wanda and some interesting truths are established.

During a day in their honeymoon a couple is separated by the city's lust and the desires it produces.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 09 September, 2014.

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