The Little World of Don Camillo (No. 1 in the Don Camillo series)

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Senza la serie di film ispirata ai libri di Guareschi, che ho sempre "adorato" e che non perdo occasione di rivedere in tv ogni volta che li trasmettono, probabilmente il mio giudizio sarebbe stato leggermente inferiore: un po' perché non sospettavo minimamente che il Don Camillo non fosse un romanzo con un corpo unitario, bensì un insieme di scenette che alla fine compongono un quadro abbastanza variegato e omogeneo, un po' perché in alcuni frangenti il linguaggio è superato e talvolta ci sono riferimenti a usanze contadine della Bassa con l'utilizzo di termini a me incomprensibili.

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Don Camillo's Last Round (Italian: Don Camillo e l'onorevole Peppone; French: La Grande Bagarre) [8] Don Camillo takes the Devil by the Tail. [Pub: Farrar, Straus, and Young, Inc., 1957] (Collection of stories for English publication, translated by Frances Frenaye) Contains stories which were not in a specific Italian-language edition (the original English edition was published under the same title in 1954)You should at least try a few of the stories. Get the book at the library, then you can return it when you have had enough. Christian-Jaque began filming the French-Italian film Don Camillo e i giovani d'oggi [11] in 1970 but had to stop filming due to Fernandel's falling ill, which resulted in his untimely death. The film was then realized in 1972 by Mario Camerini with Gastone Moschin playing the role of Don Camillo and Lionel Stander as Peppone. A Don Camillo ( The World of Don Camillo; Italian: Don Camillo) film was remade in 1983, an Italian production with Terence Hill directing and also starring as Don Camillo. Colin Blakely performed Peppone in one of his last film roles. [12] Radio [ edit ] The film was produced by Francinex (Paris) and Rizzoli Amato (Rome). It belongs to a long series of Franco-Italian (or Italo-French) coproductions which provided hundreds of movies to the cinema during 30 years after World War II.

The Little World of Don Camillo (No. 1 in the Don Camillo

The film had four sequels, thus totaling five films plus one unfinished due to Fernandel's sudden death: It’s flat. Don Camillo’s world. Flat. Flatter than Norfolk. Flatter than the Netherlands. Flatter than a table. Completely, unrelentingly flat. I want to say "charming", but there is more going on than that in this collection of short stories centering on the priest of a small, post-WWII north Italian village and his mostly comic assorted tribulations with local people and politics. a river blessing procession and the funeral of the town's generally respected old teacher, Ms. Christina, which are both kept strictly non-political despite the Communists' initial intentions.The World of Don Camillo does not contain all the stories contained in the individual books. The Italian, US English and UK English publications often have a different number of stories within them. Humor and warmth are the main threads in these stories. But as one might expect given all the author had lived through, there is a sobering darkness to these stories too. The stories still have the feel of comedy that had experienced tragedy. It brings depth to the tales and humanity to the characters. Don Camillo's Dilemma. [Pub: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1954] (Collection of stories for English publication, translated by Frances Frenaye) I've got the good fortune I also understand French and can watch these movies in that language. I can't imagine what they would sound like in English but I would advice anyone to watch them in the French version. I hate dubbed movies and can't imagine Fernandel speaking English (although in one movie he does which is hilarious). But in all, I think even the English version still is one of the best movies ever made.

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Don Camillo, Peppone and several other recurring characters fought in the Italian Resistance during WWII. Don Camillo is a priest and Peppone the Communist Lord Mayor of the little Po Valley town of Mondo Piccolo. Peppone and his comrades are sometimes seen at odds with the city-based Communist bureaucrats, who are sometimes seen as "barging in" and trying to dictate policy to the local Communists without knowing the local conditions. This is paralleled by Don Camillo sometimes coming into serious conflict with his Bishop, on one occasion a case of flagrant disobedience leading to Camillo being exiled to a tiny village high in the mountains; however, the Bishop is soon forced to reinstate him at the strong demand of his parishioners (including the Communists). Europe Choosey on Films, Sez Reiner; Sluffs Flops". Variety. September 9, 1953. p.7 . Retrieved September 29, 2019– via Archive.org. Don Camillo e i giovani d'oggi (French: Don Camillo et les contestataires; English translated: Don Camillo and the youth of today) [11] (1970) (unfinished film) Giovanni claimed that the voice from the crucifix was merely the voice of his own conscience, but in the stories, it is a living reality which enables solutions so simple that they are beyond the reach of political minds clouded with ideology and the need to win.It's hard, usually, at least for me, to render a total and impartial judgment of a dubbed movie, but in my opinion the acting was superb, the casting was excellent, and the presentation of Guareschi's vision of this Po River Valley village was close enough to perfect.

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Grazie agli amici aNobiiani che mi hanno permesso di superare la momentanea delusione e di tornare a innamorarmi di Giovannino;-)

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The story starts in a small [albeit unnamed] town, simply known as "a small world", in the Po lowlands of northern Italy, in the early summer of 1946. The town's Communist party led by Peppone has just won the majority of seats within the city council, an event which they exploit for propagandistic purposes – and with some non-vocal, but church bell-assisted protest by the outraged Don Camillo, the spiritual leader of the town's Christian political party –, when an unexpected event puts an instant stop to this arising conflict: Peppone has just added a new member, a son, to his family, and following a personal and pugilistic appeal by Peppone himself (as well as some admonishment from Christ) to a reluctant Don Camillo, the child is baptized in Camillo's church. Similar conflicts arising in the course of the story are settled between Don Camillo and Peppone in a similarly conflicting, but ultimately unified fashion, such as: