The White Sheik - CINEMA ITALIANO at Victoria Theatre & Cinema Devonport
The White Sheik - CINEMA ITALIANO
Screening as part of the 9th Cinema Italiano
Thursday 9 May @ 6pm
Wednesday 15 May @ 6pm
Lo Sceicco Bianco (The White Sheik)
It is Fellini’s first film and it fulfils all of one’s expectations of an Italian comedy from the golden era of cinema. Comically inventive, clever, smart and charming. Although it is a classic from another time, the themes are pertinent today. Fellini pokes fun at celebrity culture, the church, the film industry and anyone who sells dreams. It is the story of newlyweds who travel to Rome for their honeymoon.
Before the groom can even introduce the bride to his family, Wanda (Brunella Bovo) runs away to find the movie star of her fantasies, The White Sheik (played by the colossal Alberto Sordi). Sordi parodies (Rudolph Valentino, another Italian man pretending to be an Arab nobleman). The whimsical music of Nino Rota establishes a style that will remain throughout Fellini’s career. It is listed by The Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage 100 films that “have changed the collective memory of the country”.
Directed by Federico Fellini
Starring Alberto Sordi, Giulietta Masina, Brunella Bovo, Leopolde Trieste
Screening in Italian with English subtitles.
Lo Sceicco Bianco
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Thursday 9 May @ 6pm
Wednesday 15 May @ 6pm
Lo Sceicco Bianco (The White Sheik)
It is Fellini’s first film and it fulfils all of one’s expectations of an Italian comedy from the golden era of cinema. Comically inventive, clever, smart and charming. Although it is a classic from another time, the themes are pertinent today. Fellini pokes fun at celebrity culture, the church, the film industry and anyone who sells dreams. It is the story of newlyweds who travel to Rome for their honeymoon.
Before the groom can even introduce the bride to his family, Wanda (Brunella Bovo) runs away to find the movie star of her fantasies, The White Sheik (played by the colossal Alberto Sordi). Sordi parodies (Rudolph Valentino, another Italian man pretending to be an Arab nobleman). The whimsical music of Nino Rota establishes a style that will remain throughout Fellini’s career. It is listed by The Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage 100 films that “have changed the collective memory of the country”.
Directed by Federico Fellini
Starring Alberto Sordi, Giulietta Masina, Brunella Bovo, Leopolde Trieste
Screening in Italian with English subtitles.
Lo Sceicco Bianco
Screening as part of the 9th Cinema Italiano
Thursday 9 May @ 6pm
Wednesday 15 May @ 6pm
Lo Sceicco Bianco (The White Sheik)
It is Fellini’s first film and it fulfils all of one’s expectations of an Italian comedy from the golden era of cinema. Comically inventive, clever, smart and charming. Although it is a classic from another time, the themes are pertinent today. Fellini pokes fun at celebrity culture, the church, the film industry and anyone who sells dreams. It is the story of newlyweds who travel to Rome for their honeymoon.
Before the groom can even introduce the bride to his family, Wanda (Brunella Bovo) runs away to find the movie star of her fantasies, The White Sheik (played by the colossal Alberto Sordi). Sordi parodies (Rudolph Valentino, another Italian man pretending to be an Arab nobleman). The whimsical music of Nino Rota establishes a style that will remain throughout Fellini’s career. It is listed by The Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage 100 films that “have changed the collective memory of the country”.
Directed by Federico Fellini
Starring Alberto Sordi, Giulietta Masina, Brunella Bovo, Leopolde Trieste
Screening in Italian with English subtitles.
Lo Sceicco Bianco
Thursday 9 May @ 6pm
Wednesday 15 May @ 6pm
Lo Sceicco Bianco (The White Sheik)
It is Fellini’s first film and it fulfils all of one’s expectations of an Italian comedy from the golden era of cinema. Comically inventive, clever, smart and charming. Although it is a classic from another time, the themes are pertinent today. Fellini pokes fun at celebrity culture, the church, the film industry and anyone who sells dreams. It is the story of newlyweds who travel to Rome for their honeymoon.
Before the groom can even introduce the bride to his family, Wanda (Brunella Bovo) runs away to find the movie star of her fantasies, The White Sheik (played by the colossal Alberto Sordi). Sordi parodies (Rudolph Valentino, another Italian man pretending to be an Arab nobleman). The whimsical music of Nino Rota establishes a style that will remain throughout Fellini’s career. It is listed by The Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage 100 films that “have changed the collective memory of the country”.
Directed by Federico Fellini
Starring Alberto Sordi, Giulietta Masina, Brunella Bovo, Leopolde Trieste
Screening in Italian with English subtitles.
Lo Sceicco Bianco
The White Sheik - CINEMA ITALIANO
Screening as part of the 9th Cinema Italiano
Thursday 9 May @ 6pm
Wednesday 15 May @ 6pm
Lo Sceicco Bianco (The White Sheik)
It is Fellini’s first film and it fulfils all of one’s expectations of an Italian comedy from the golden era of cinema. Comically inventive, clever, smart and charming. Although it is a classic from another time, the themes are pertinent today. Fellini pokes fun at celebrity culture, the church, the film industry and anyone who sells dreams. It is the story of newlyweds who travel to Rome for their honeymoon.
Before the groom can even introduce the bride to his family, Wanda (Brunella Bovo) runs away to find the movie star of her fantasies, The White Sheik (played by the colossal Alberto Sordi). Sordi parodies (Rudolph Valentino, another Italian man pretending to be an Arab nobleman). The whimsical music of Nino Rota establishes a style that will remain throughout Fellini’s career. It is listed by The Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage 100 films that “have changed the collective memory of the country”.
Directed by Federico Fellini
Starring Alberto Sordi, Giulietta Masina, Brunella Bovo, Leopolde Trieste
Screening in Italian with English subtitles.
Lo Sceicco Bianco