The Little World of Don Camillo

1952 • 1h 47m •

Comedy

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★ 7.6/10

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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.

Top Billed Cast

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

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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 wh...