The White Sheik
1952 · Movie · 88 min. · Italy
Two young newlyweds from a provincial town, Wanda (Brunella Bovo) and Ivan Cavalli (Leopoldo Trieste), arrive in Rome for their honeymoon. Wanda is obsessed with the "White Sheik" (Alberto Sordi), the hero of a soap opera photo strip and sneaks off to find him, leaving her conventional, petit bourgeois husband in hysterics as he tries to hide his wife's disappearance from his strait-laced relatives who are waiting to go with them to visit the Pope.
Direction Federico Fellini
Cast Alberto Sordi · Brunella Bovo · Leopoldo Trieste · Giulietta Masina · Lilia Landi · Ernesto Almirante · Fanny Marchiò · Iole Silvani · Gina Mascetti · Ugo Attanasio · Enzo Maggio · Antonio Acqua · Mimo Billi · Carlo Mazzoni
Soundtrack Nino Rota
Screenplay Federico Fellini · Tullio Pinelli · Ennio Flaiano · Michelangelo Antonioni
Cinematography Arturo Gallea
Original title Lo sceicco bianco
6.8
1K votes (FilmAffinity)
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