Rent The White Sheik (1951)
3.6 of 5 from 70 ratings
1h 24min
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- Synopsis:
- When a provincial Italian couple arrives in Rome for a honeymoon, the wife sets off in search of her photo-romance magazine idol, the "White Sheik" (Alberto Sordi), and leaves her husband to wander the streets of the city alone. When she finds the Sheik and then finds herself alone on a yacht with him, the newlyweds' weekend takes a definite turn for the worse.
- Actors:
- Alberto Sordi, Giulietta Masina, Brunella Bovo, Leopoldo Trieste, Ernesto Almirante, Lilia Landi, Fanny Marchiò, Gina Mascetti, Jole Silvani, Enzo Maggio, Anna Primula, Mimo Billi, Armando Libianchi, Ugo Attanasio, Giulio Moreschi, Elettra Zago, Piero Antonucci, Aroldino the Comedian, Antonio Acqua, Lalla Ambraziejus
- Directors:
- Federico Fellini
- Producers:
- Luigi Rovere, Mario Conti
- Writers:
- Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano
- Aka:
- Lo Sceicco Bianco
- Studio:
- Optimum
- Genres:
- Classics, Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Collections:
- 10 Films to Watch if You Like: Amarcord, A Brief History of Cinema Afloat: Part 3, The Cinema Paradiso Kissing Montage, The Instant Expert's Guide to Federico Fellini
- Countries:
- Italy
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 06/04/2020
- Run Time:
- 87 minutes
- Languages:
- Italian LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.37:1
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Fellini's 'White Sheik' (and Other Stories)
- Fellini's Collection at the Lilly Library
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Reviews (1) of The White Sheik
Lovely comedy from a great diector - The White Sheik review by Promessi
Nowadays comedy seems to need to be aggressive, or at least sneering and supercilious. To watch The White Sheik is to enjoy lovely, gentle comedy which is effective but free of rancour.There are terific performances by the three stars, Sordi, Bovo and Trieste-- incidentally despite the biling Masina hardly features. The movie is about bourgeois covention, schoolgirlish romantic fantasy and the importance of real down to earth love and marriage. But there are also familiar Fellini themes treated with a lightness of touch that is consistent with the whole: Art (film) and illusion versus reality; the looming presence of the Church ; the ease of becoming trapped by the trivial when the things of real importance are close at hand. I loved every minute and when I wasn't laughing with the victims of our shared human frailty, I was smiling with a tear in my eye at the joy of living that the film portrays.
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