The White Sheik (1952)

Original title

Lo sceicco bianco

Directed by

Federico Fellini

Genre

drama film, comedy film

Country

Italy

Runtime

1h 25m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 288 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A newlywed man takes his bride to Rome for their honeymoon. She sneaks off to meet the star of her favorite romance comic books while he frantically makes excuses to his family.

lightheartedchaoticromanticfarce-likenostalgicplayfulabsurdbittersweetvisually charming

What happens

The White Sheik (Italian: Lo sceicco bianco) is a 1952 Italian romantic comedy film directed by Federico Fellini and starring Alberto Sordi, Leopoldo Trieste, Brunella Bovo and Giulietta Masina. Written by Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano and Michelangelo Antonioni, the film is about a man who brings his new bride to Rome for their honeymoon, to have an audience with the Pope, and to present his wife to his family. When the young woman sneaks away to find the hero of her romance photonovels, the man is forced to spend hour after hour making excuses to his eager family who want to meet his missing bride. The White Sheik was filmed on location in Fregene, Rome, Spoleto and Vatican City. In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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