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In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community. If in secret, they admired and liked each other, politics still divided them as it is dividing the country. And when the mayor wants his "People's House"; the priest wants his "Garden City" for the poor. Division exist between the richest and the poorest, the pious and the atheists and even between lovers. But if the people are hard as the country, they are good in the bottom of there heart.
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Budget
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Revenue
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Studios
Fernandel
Don Camillo Tarocci
Gino Cervi
Giuseppe Bottazzi "Peppone"
Vera Talchi
Gina Filotti
Franco Interlenghi
Mariolino Brusco
Saro Urzì
Brusco
Charles Vissières
Il Vescovo
Sylvie
Signora Cristina
Clara Auteri Pepe
Clara Auteri
Italo Clerici
Barchini
Peppino De Martino
Assessore
Carlo Duse
Il Bigio
Manuel Gary
Il delegato
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Fernandel is great in this comedy drama set after the end of the Second World War in Italy. He's the eponymous churchman who is watching his country at a crossroads between the old and the new ways of thinking. The town has just elected a communist mayor, nicknamed "Peppone" (Gino Cervi) and it seems that just about everyone barring himself and the town's former school mistress "Cristina" (Sylvie) is supporting the new regime. The two men spar like rutting stags, with the former using his considerable array of church bells to drown out his rival's political speechifying and the latter doing whatever he can to thwart the priest's dreams of establishing a garden for the poor - of which there are quite a few! Luckily, we have an invisible narrator for this exercise who adopts a god-like position on the shoulder of "Camillo" reminding him to live to the vows he took to his church despite his inclination for fisticuffs and disputations with just about everyone, but that is becoming much harder when rumours of some Nazi cash reach his ears and he wants some of it for his project. The mayor wants to build an edifice to demonstrate the power of the people and their new found freedoms, and that's what he wants to do with the reportedly 10 million Lire. Can they compromise? What's becomes clear to us is that there is a lot of bravado going on here, and when it comes down to it the two me…
Title
The Little World of Don Camillo
Released
Mar 28, 1952
Rated
12
Region of Origin
France, Italy
Original Audio
Italian
Runtime
1h 47m
Status
Released
Studios
Francinex, Amato Film
