Comedy

The Little World of Don Camillo

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.

Release Date : 1952-03-28

Language :Italian

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : FrancinexAmato FilmRizzoli Film

Production Country : FranceItaly

Alternative Titles : The Little World of Don Camillo

Cast

Character Name : Don Camillo Tarocci

Original Name : Fernandel

Gender : Male

Character Name : Giuseppe Bottazzi "Peppone"

Original Name : Gino Cervi

Gender : Male

Character Name : Gina Filotti

Original Name : Vera Talchi

Gender : Female

Character Name : Mariolino Brusco

Original Name : Franco Interlenghi

Gender : Male

Character Name : Brusco

Original Name : Saro Urzì

Gender : Male

Character Name : Il Vescovo

Original Name : Charles Vissières

Gender : Male

Character Name : Signora Cristina

Original Name : Sylvie

Gender : Female

Character Name : Clara Auteri

Original Name : Clara Auteri Pepe

Gender : Male

Character Name : Barchini

Original Name : Italo Clerici

Gender : Male

Character Name : Assessore

Original Name : Peppino De Martino

Gender : Male

Character Name : Il Bigio

Original Name : Carlo Duse

Gender : Male

Character Name : Il delegato

Original Name : Manuel Gary

Gender : Male

Character Name : Signora Bottazzi

Original Name : Leda Gloria

Gender : Female

Character Name : Filotti

Original Name : Luciano Manara

Gender : Male

Character Name : Brusco

Original Name : Armando Migliari

Gender : Male

Character Name : Scartazzini

Original Name : Giovanni Onorato

Gender : Male

Character Name : il sacrestano

Original Name : Franco Pesce

Gender : Male

Character Name : Stiletti

Original Name : Mario Siletti

Gender : Male

Character Name : madre di Gina

Original Name : Olga Solbelli

Gender : Female

Character Name : Lo smilzo

Original Name : Marco Tulli

Gender : Male

Character Name : Ciro della Bruciata

Original Name : Gualtiero Tumiati

Gender : Male

Character Name : voce cristo sulla croce

Original Name : Ruggero Ruggeri

Gender : Male

Character Name : una vecchietta

Original Name : Dina Romano

Gender : Male

Character Name : La voix du Jésus

Original Name : Jean Debucourt

Gender : Male

Reviews

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@Geronimo1967

2025-01-06

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 men are actually remarkably and stubbornly similar. They both want what's best for their village, their congregation/electorate and both are conscious that this is a delicate time for their nation and co-operation is going to be vital, even if it's grudgingly given. The novel from Giovanni Guareschi upon which this is based offers quite a gentle analysis of post-war, and soon to be post-kingdom, Italy and looks at the roles of the church and it's traditions in a subtly thought-provoking fashion. Director Julien Duvivier has managed to capture quite a bit of that thrust and incorporates it engagingly into a series of scenarios that do raise a smile, but also an eyebrow too. It's good fun, this, with plenty of daftness to illustrate the power of belligerence - in all it's glory!