Don Camillo

Don Camillo

107 mins | Comedy | March 28, 1952

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.

Don Camillo

107 mins | Comedy | March 28, 1952

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.
IMDb rating 7.6
Producers Rizzoli Films, Francinex, Amato Film
Original title Don Camillo
Directors Alberto Cardone, Julien Duvivier, Gianfranco Parolini
Writers Giovanni Guareschi, Julien Duvivier, René Barjavel

Cast

Fernandel

as Don Camillo

Gino Cervi

as Giuseppe Bottazzi "Peppone"

Vera Talchi

as Gina Filotti

Franco Interlenghi

as Mariolino Brusco

Saro Urzì

as Brusco

Charles Vissières

as Il Vescovo

Sylvie

as Signora Cristina

Clara Auteri Pepe

as Clara Auteri

Italo Clerici

as Barchini

Peppino De Martino

as Assessore

Carlo Duse

as Il Bigio

Manuel Gary

as Il delegato

Leda Gloria

as Signora Bottazzi

Luciano Manara

as Filotti

Armando Migliari

as Brusco

Giovanni Onorato

as Scartazzini

Franco Pesce

as il sacrestano

Mario Siletti

as Stiletti

Olga Solbelli

as madre di Gina

Marco Tulli

as Lo smilzo

Gualtiero Tumiati

as Ciro della Bruciata

Ruggero Ruggeri

as voce cristo sulla croce

Dina Romano

as una vecchietta