The White Sheik
(1952)
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The White Sheik
(1952)
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Fernando Rivoli - il sceicco bianco
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Brunella Bovo | ... |
Wanda Giardino Cavalli
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Leopoldo Trieste | ... |
Ivan Cavalli
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| Giulietta Masina | ... | ||
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Lilia Landi | ... |
Felga - La zingara del fotoromanzo
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Ernesto Almirante | ... |
Dottore Fortuna - il regista del fotoromanzo
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Fanny Marchiò | ... |
Marilena Alba Vellardi
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Gina Mascetti | ... |
Aida Rivoli - La moglie di Fernando
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Jole Silvani |
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Enzo Maggio | ... |
Furio
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Anna Primula |
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Mimo Billi | ... |
Man on the beach
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Armando Libianchi |
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Ugo Attanasio | ... |
Uncle of Ivan
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Giulio Moreschi |
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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? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
There is a curious "review" that begins the section of reviews for this film, in which one of the users of this website has written a scathing denouncement of this film. I don't quite know where this comes from (probably a prank) but it isn't relevant and it is the only such review. This is a brilliant film, Fellini's second opus, and bears many of the trademarks of Fellini: the sweeping shots of the streets of Rome, the Nino Rota score, the "decadence on the beach" sequence. It is also quite a clever parody of film genres and styles. And I was very pleasantly surprised to find that it contains a delightful scene with Giulietta Masina as Cabiria, the role which is expanded in the film Nights of Cabiria five years later.