The White Sheik
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The White Sheik (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 novels, 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.
Plot
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 Rudolph Valentino-like hero of a soap opera photo strip and sneaks off to find him, leaving her conventional, petit bourgeois husband in a quandry 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.
Cast
- Alberto Sordi as Fernando Rivoli, The White Sheik
- Leopoldo Trieste as Ivan Cavalli
- Brunella Bovo as Wanda Giardino Cavalli
- Giulietta Masina as Cabiria, the prostitute
- Lilia Landi as Felga, the photonovel's gipsy
- Ernesto Almirante as Dottore Fortuna, the photonovel's director
- Fanny Marchiò as Marilena Alba Vellardi
- Gina Mascetti as Aida Rivoli, the wife of Fernando
- Ugo Attanasio as Uncle of Ivan
