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Thursday, Jan 16, 2020
7 PM (86 mins)
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BAMPFA
The White Sheik
(Lo sceicco bianco)
Digital Restoration
The White Sheik also screens Wednesday, February 12, with a lecture by Russell Merritt.
Alberto Sordi, Leopoldo Trieste, Brunella Bovo, Giulietta Masina,
Federico Fellini’s first solo directorial effort is a farce about the collision of fantasy and reality. A pair of provincial newlyweds (Leopoldo Trieste and Brunella Bovo) arrive in Rome with plans for a visit with relatives and an audience with the pope. But first the naive young bride sets out to meet her heartthrob, the White Sheik (Alberto Sordi), hero of a fumetto photo-comic strip—leading to a romantic misadventure for her and a series of embarrassments for her increasingly hysterical husband. Propelled by a jaunty Nino Rota score, the film features a minor but memorable appearance by Giulietta Masina as the prostitute Cabiria.
FILM DETAILS
Screenwriter
- Federico Fellini
- Ennio Flaiano
- Tullio Pinelli
Based On
a story by Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Pinelli
Cinematographer
- Arturo Gallea
Language
- Italian
- with English subtitles
Print Info
- B&W
- DCP
- 86 mins
Source
- Rialto Pictures
Additional Info
- 4K restoration by Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna, in collaboration with RTI-Mediaset and Infinity, as part of Fellini 100. Restored from the original camera negative. Soundtrack negative provided by Studio Cine. Restoration carried out at L'immagine Ritrovata laboratory, Bologna.