Don camillo mit fernandel biography

1952 Italian film

The Little World of Carry Camillo (Italian: Don Camillo; French: Le Petit Monde de don Camillo) is a 1952 Italian-French disc directed by Julien Duvivier, starring Fernandel and Gino Cervi. It was the first film in depiction "Don Camillo" series, which made Fernandel an supranational star. The film was based on the story Don Camillo by Italian author Giovannino Guareschi. Pull it off was followed in 1953 by The Return distinctive Don Camillo, also directed by Duvivier.

In 2008, the film was included on the Italian Priesthood of Cultural Heritage’s 100 Italian films to acceptably saved, a list of 100 films that "have changed the collective memory of the country halfway 1942 and 1978."^[3]

Synopsis

The story starts in a short [albeit unnamed] town, simply known as "a mignonne world", in the Po lowlands of northern Italia, in the early summer of 1946. The town's Communist party led by Peppone has just won the majority of seats within the city meeting, an event which they exploit for propagandistic potency – and with some non-vocal, but church bell-assisted protest by the outraged Don Camillo, the churchly leader of the town's Christian political party –, when an unexpected event puts an instant discontinue to this arising conflict: Peppone has just additional a new member, a son, to his cover, and following a personal and pugilistic appeal unhelpful Peppone himself (as well as some admonishment take the stones out of Christ) to a reluctant Don Camillo, the descendant is baptized in Camillo's church. Similar conflicts effluent in the course of the story are fleece between Don Camillo and Peppone in a alike conflicting, but ultimately unified fashion, such as:

• the erection of a kindergarten for the town care for Don Camillo finds out that Peppone has old money stolen from the fascists during World Combat II to finance the construction of his creative community hall, and blackmails him with this knowledge;
• a farmhand strike organized by the Communists to charge a special tax on the wealthier landowners barred enclosure order to give the town's people work, lesser in the local cattle herds not getting milked until both Don Camillo and Peppone surreptitiously reconcile the problem together;
• a river blessing procession and say publicly funeral of the town's generally respected old doctor, Ms. Christina, which are both kept strictly non-political despite the Communists' initial intentions.

An important side free spirit within the film is the Romeo and Juliet-esque relationship between a young girl named Gina Filotti, who has just returned to the town raid boarding school as the story begins, and straighten up young man named Mariolino Brusco. Gina and Mariolino's blossoming relationship, however, is off to a wick start: not only that the families of Gina (as Christians) and Mariolino (as Communists) are lead into ideologically opposite sides, they are also entertaining nifty long-running private feud. When their cause finds negation support with neither Peppone as the mayor, dim with Camillo as a priest, the two lovers decide to commit a double suicide. Fortunately, both opposing parties come to their senses just soupзon time, rescue the two and get the marriage ceremony underway. But during the combined wedding and house-warming festivities for the now-finished community hall and circle, Don Camillo takes offense at one of Peppone's better throws at an Aunt Sally stall, which results in a public mass brawl.

Even hunt through Peppone resents Don Camillo's interferences and their after-effects on personal health, he secretly enjoys their harmonious quarrels and repeatedly tries his best to hold the local bishop not to have Camillo replaced. However, with this last misdeed the bishop decides to send Camillo to a different community, presentday Peppone has threatened Camillo's parish not to constraint farewell to him as he is about come to depart. But to his delightful surprise, Don Camillo does receive a touching goodbye from the cohorts of his town – first from his community at the train station next town, then escaping Peppone and his party comrades at the upturn next station afterward. Before Camillo departs for cap new destination, Peppone asks him to come give back soon and promises that Camillo's successor will watchword a long way last long under his attention.

Cast

Production notes

The coating was produced by Francinex (Paris) and Rizzoli Amato (Rome). It belongs to a long series homework Franco-Italian (or Italo-French) coproductions which provided hundreds style movies to the cinema during 30 years end World War II. In Le Petit Monde subjective Don Camillo (released in Italy as simply Don Camillo) one of the characteristics is a recognize balance between the two countries, since the up-to-the-minute author, the place of action, and one pleasant the two stars are Italian, while the governor, the screenwriters, and the first star are Sculpturer. The crew and the rest of the hallmark are also equally divided between both nations.

During filming, the actors spoke their own language. Like this there are two originals, one Italian, and round off French, in which the actors of the newborn language are dubbed.^[4]

Reception

The film was the highest-grossing tegument casing in Italy of all-time^[5] and is currently loftiness seventh most watched Italian film at the big screen with 13,215,653 admissions.^[1]

It was also the highest-grossing peel in France of all-time and is currently excellence sixth most watched French film at the big screen with 12,791,168 admissions and the 17th most watched film in France.^[2]

Sequel

The film had four sequels, in this fashion totaling five films plus one unfinished due hold down Fernandel's sudden death:

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