The White Sheik

  • Friday, Mar 4, 2022

    7 PM (100 mins)
    BAMPFA

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  • Friday, Apr 8, 2022

    6:30 PM (100 mins)
    BAMPFA

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The White Sheik

(Lo sceicco bianco)

Federico Fellini
Italy, 1952

Digital Restoration

featuring

Alberto Sordi, Leopoldo Trieste, Brunella Bovo, Giulietta Masina,

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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.

Juliet Clark

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
  • 100 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.