The Little World of Don Camillo
1952
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Synopsis
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.
Facts
Setting
Italy
Filming location
Brescello
Production
Cineriz
Original language
Italian
Stills
Festival History
- BAFTA Awards 1954 generic
- National Board of Review 1953 generic
- New York Film Critics Circle Awards 1953 generic
- Locarno International Film Festival 1952 generic
