
Overview:
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.Original Title: | Don Camillo |
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Status: | Released (1952-03-28) |
Awards: | Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award3 wins & 4 nominations total |
Screen: | Giovanni Guareschi, Julien Duvivier, René Barjavel |
Productions: | Francinex, Amato Film, Rizzoli Film |
Production Countries: | France, Italy |
Spoken Languages: | Italiano |

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Review text:
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 Ce ....
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