Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa?

Ettore Scola's 1968 Italian comedy-adventure is available to watch online on iFILM. Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa? runs over two hours and aims its satire squarely at a bored, well-fed bourgeois.

Publisher Fausto De Silvio is sick of work, family and polite society. With his loyal accountant Palmarini in tow, he sets off into Africa to track down a brother-in-law who vanished three years earlier. The trek wears them down, the leads keep snapping — and when they do find the man, the joke turns: he has become a tribal chief and has no wish to return. Suddenly the real question is not where he went, but why anyone would go home at all.

The cast is a who's who of Italian comedy: Alberto Sordi, Nino Manfredi and Bernard Blier. Dressed up as a safari romp, Scola's film is really a sly dig at a comfortable man who envies the one person brave enough to walk away. Stream this 1968 classic online on iFILM.