The White Sheik (1952) on Netflix
Newlyweds Wanda and Ivan Cavalli come to Rome for their honeymoon. Ivan has a papal audience and relatives to meet; Wanda slips away to find the White Sheik, her photo-strip hero.
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Plot summary
Ivan Cavalli, a punctilious clerk from a provincial town, brings his bride Wanda to Rome for their honeymoon. He has two duties in mind: an audience with the Pope and presenting Wanda to his uncle and the rest of his relatives. Wanda, meanwhile, is absorbed in a romance magazine and its photo strip, whose hero is the White Sheik, Fernando Rivoli. While Ivan rests after their early arrival, she slips out to find the magazine's offices and the man she has only seen in pictures. Ivan is left to explain his wife's absence to the family waiting to meet her, telling them she is ill.
Cast
- Lilia Landias Felga - La zingara del fotoromanzo
- Anna Primulaas Rita
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The White Sheik (1952)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Giulietta Masina appears only briefly as the prostitute Cabiria, but the part inspired Federico Fellini to write Nights of Cabiria, in which she played the same role, and convinced producers she was ready to carry a leading role.
- The White Sheik was Federico Fellini's first film as a solo director, after he had co-directed Variety Lights with Alberto Lattuada in 1950.
- In 2008, The White Sheik was chosen by the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage as one of 100 Italian films to be saved, a list of films that "have changed the collective memory of the country between 1942 and 1978."
