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

Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa? poster
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
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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.

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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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