The Little World of Don Camillo (1952)

28/03/1952 (FR)•Comedy•1h 47m

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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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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
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A review by CinemaSerf

7.0

Written by CinemaSerf on Jan 6, 2025

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...