Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa? (1968)

Original title

Riusciranno i nostri eroi a ritrovare l'amico misteriosamente scomparso in Africa?

Directed by

Ettore Scola

Genre

comedy film, adventure film

Country

Italy

Runtime

2h 10m

Rated

T

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 102 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two friends travel to Africa to search for a companion who has gone missing. They encounter various obstacles and adventures along the way.

lightheartedwhimsicalplayfulslow-pacedquirkybreezysentimental

What happens

Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa? (Italian: Riusciranno i nostri eroi a ritrovare l'amico misteriosamente scomparso in Africa?) is a 1968 Italian adventure comedy film co-written and directed by Ettore Scola. Production of the film started in 1965, with the working title Mister Sabatini, suppongo (Mister Sabatini, I Suppose). It started a trend in Italian cinema of using extremely long names for films. The film was the sixth highest-grossing release at the Italian box office in the 1968–69 season. The plot is loosely based on books by Salgari, Verne and Conrad that Scola read as a child and on Italian Disney comics artist Romano Scarpa's comic Topolino e il Pippotarzan (1957). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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