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28/03/1952 Comedy 1h 47m
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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.

  1. Julien Duvivier

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Fernandel

    Don Camillo Tarocci

  2. Gino Cervi

    Giuseppe Bottazzi "Peppone"

  3. Vera Talchi

    Gina Filotti

  4. Franco Interlenghi

    Mariolino Brusco

  5. Saro Urzì

    Brusco

  6. Charles Vissières

    Il Vescovo

  7. Sylvie

    Signora Cristina

  8. Clara Auteri Pepe

    Clara Auteri

  9. Italo Clerici

    Barchini

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A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 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...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
Italian

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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