Don Camillo and Peppone (film)
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| German title | Don Camillo and Peppone |
| Original title | Le petit monde de Don Camillo |
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| Country of production | Italy , France |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1952 |
| length | 107 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Julien Duvivier |
| script | Julien Duvivier René Barjavel |
| production | Giuseppe Amato |
| music | Alessandro Cicognini |
| camera | Nicolas Hayer |
| cut | Maria Rosada |
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Don Camillo and Peppone (original title: Le petit monde de Don Camillo) is an Italian-French feature film from 1952. It is the first film in the hugely successful five-part Don Camillo and Peppone film saga starring Fernandel and Gino Cervi based on the stories of Giovanni Guareschi .
action
1946 in the small town of Brescello in the Po Valley. The communists have won the mayoral election and are holding a victory ceremony on the market square. Don Camillo does not want to allow this and leaves his church to stop the celebration. From the high altar, however, Jesus calls him to stop doing this. Instead, Don Camillo is ringing all the bells so that the rally can no longer take place. This is observed by Gina Filotti, who has just come from boarding school , the old teacher Miss Cristina and the lawyer. In the general hustle and bustle, news reaches Peppone and the Communists storm off. At first it looks like they are about to storm the church; but they gather in front of Peppone's house, who proudly shows off his newborn son. And Don Camillo is now ringing the bells with joy.
A little later, Peppone's wife comes to church and wants to have the child baptized. But since the child should also be called Lenin , Don Camillo refuses. Jesus speaks to his conscience again. And just as he is about to give in, Peppone comes with his child and insists on having the child baptized, also with the name Lenin. To solve the problem, the two fight each other in the bell tower , repeatedly moving the bell ropes and the villagers marveling at the bell. The child will now also be baptized. From Peppone it should now be called Camillo instead of Lenin. But Don Camillo thinks that he can then also call it Lenin, because Lenin is disappearing next to him anyway.
The child's godfather is old Brusco. His family has a farm, but is still impoverished. In stark contrast to his neighbor Filotti. There has been a dispute between the two families for years. The problem is: Brusco's son Mariolino and Gina Filotti, old Filotti's granddaughter, have loved each other since childhood.
Meanwhile, Miss Cristina receives a visit from the newly elected city councilors. Since their writing skills are difficult, they want to take tuition from the old teacher. Miss Cristina doesn't like, however, because she is a monarchist herself and the councilors are communists. In the end, however, she agrees to give them tutoring - just not the mayor, because he was too crazy at school at the time.
Instead, he goes to Don Camillo to go to confession. In the confession it emerges that it was Peppone who recently beat up Camillo at night, and he reveals that it was he who wrote about the incorrect announcements that Peppone was a donkey. Peppone then asks Don Camillo for help in formulating his latest announcement. And he corrects the grammar , but asks for the bell tower to be repaired with the help of the community.
Don Camillo is invited to the laying of the foundation stone for the Volkshaus that Peppone promised his voters. He comes, blesses the cornerstone and says a few words. He suspects that the money for the construction does not come from donations from the population, but from the treasury of a division of the fascists, which the partisans have captured but, strangely enough, want to have lost. So Don Camillo invited Peppone and forced him at the machine gun to hand him three of the ten million lire so that he could build a kindergarten .
Despite the two major construction sites, there is not enough work in the community. To remedy this, one decides on job creation measures, which are to be financed by a one-time property tax. However, the landowners refuse to pay.
Therefore a strike is organized. The pickets don't let anyone do their work, not even Filotti's servant, who has to help a cow calve. Outraged by this injustice, Don Camillo intervenes and goes to Filotti's court that evening. There he meets Peppone. He also complains about the situation: In the city you can simply turn machines off and on again after the strike, but in the countryside you can't bring the dead cows back to life. So both get to work; they milk the cows in Filotti's stable, feed and water them and give birth to the calf.
To support the strike, more pickets are called from the city. When they arrive, however, the strike has already ended. Hence, they sit down and start getting drunk. When Don Camillo comes by, they mock him. This does not leave this unanswered; he fights them and even throws a massive table at them.
As the mayor, Peppone complains to the bishop , who immediately offers him to replace Don Camillo with a young priest who is present. Peppone immediately changes his mind and asks the bishop to refrain from the change. The bishop washes Don Camillo's head, but cannot believe that he can throw a table similar to the one in his office. He orders Don Camillo to do this immediately. When Don Camillo succeeds in doing this, the impressed bishop only gives him one more warning.
The annual blessing of the river is coming up. Don Camillo also invites the mayor to attend. He promised that he would come with the entire local group of communists - with the flag, the red flag. Don Camillo does not want this; it's about religion, not politics. Therefore they should come without a flag. Peppone refuses, and on top of that he lets it be spread that anyone who comes to the procession will be beaten. So Camillo sets off alone with the cross from the high altar, accompanied only by a dog. On the way he meets the communists who block his way. Just as Don Camillo is about to strike the cross, they make way for him. Peppone emphasizes that he is giving way to Jesus, not Don Camillo. This is how you go to the river that Don Camillo is now blessing.
This is necessary, because the river repeatedly overflows its banks and devoured a chapel in the 19th century . According to a superstition, their bells ring every time an accident is imminent. In any case, Miss Cristina tells this to Mariolino and Gina, who are having a rendezvous at the river. However, Mariolino has to leave quickly so that he can get there in time for the inauguration of Don Camillo's kindergarten football field . There is also a game between the parish team and a communist team. The first half of the game is quite turbulent and Don Camillo's team is 2-1 at half-time. Then Peppone grabs Mariolino during the break and threatens to beat him if he doesn't equalize soon. Mariolino manages that with a furious walk through. Towards the end it is still 2-2. However, if a Communist player is fouled, the referee will whistle a penalty for them. Mariolino transformed.
Then the angry crowd chases the referee. He finds refuge in the church. Don Camillo has the crowd cross themselves and says that if they attack him now, it would be sacrilege. Then he turns to the persecuted himself. It turns out that he was bribed by both sides, with Peppone paying more. Angry, Camillo throws the man out of the church.
Miss Cristina is dying. She calls the mayor and Don Camillo. She forgives Don Camillo that his dog once destroyed her flowers. Then she regulates her inheritance. The mayor should get the school books and the poor should get the clothes. Otherwise she has nothing. She doesn't want music at the funeral. Only her old flag, the king's flag, should lie on her coffin. With her last words, she wants to speak out for Gina and Mariolino so that the two can marry.
The local council discusses whether to give in to Miss Cristina's wishes. The communist MPs are against it and polemicize. The opposition MP, the lawyer Spiletti, is also against it. He protests against the polemics , but does not want to provoke the population. Then Peppone asks Don Camillo to take a stand. He says he wants to hear Peppone's opinion first. Peppone says, as mayor, he approves the negative decision of the local council. But since in Brescello it is not the mayor who decides what is done, but the communists, and since he is their boss, he doesn't care what the city council thinks. Miss Cristina should have her last will, since the will of the dead is more important to him than that of the living, and he throws those who see things differently out of the window. Don Camillo is satisfied and with a little irony to understand that he must bow to violence. So Miss Cristina is buried as she wished.
Gina and Mariolino really want to get married. However, she is not yet of legal age and the two families are spider enemies; they forbade marriage under threat of beating. Since the two want to marry against their families' wishes, they go to Don Camillo late in the evening. He calms her down; he would think of something, they should go home again. Instead, they go to Peppone, who reacts similarly. They say goodbye with the words that the bell will already be heard and go to the river to go into the water together. It is Peppone's wife who realizes what the two mean by that - whenever an accident occurs, the bell in the river rings. A rescue operation is started immediately and the two are fished out of the water. Don Camillo now orders the two heads of the family to fight each other one last time; because from tomorrow there will be peace. And the two young people are to be married personally by the bishop.
After this action, Don Camillo and Peppone agree to inaugurate the kindergarten and the Volkshaus together. Since the bishop is coming to the wedding, Peppone thinks about how to inaugurate his Volkshaus in front of the kindergarten. So they block the street on which the bishop arrives with a broken down truck and accompany the bishop on foot to the kindergarten. Even before the actual inauguration, they say they have to go quickly to inaugurate their Volkshaus. The bishop becomes curious, goes with him and congratulates the people on their Volkshaus. In the evening there is a folk festival in the village. There Don Camillo is provoked at a throwing booth and unleashes a fight in the presence of the bishop. Don Camillo is then transferred to another parish.
Nobody appears at Don Camillo's farewell. Peppone has threatened beatings again. At the next station, Brescello - Viadana , the entire parish stands and gives him plenty of presents. At the following Gualtieri station , the local communist group has gathered and bid him farewell. Peppone promises to scare away the new pastor quickly and to stand up for Don Camillo with the bishop.
criticism
“The collaboration between Guareschi, Duvivier and Fernandel was a stroke of luck. Fernandel, often underestimated and used as a mere joker and grimace cutter, played the rogue in the cassock seriously and very reserved, gave this caricature of a priest human credibility. And Duvivier, famous for his poetic realism and one of the greats of French film in the 1930s, had the necessary empathy for Guareschi's “Little World”. "
“Successful film adaptation of the contemporary picaresque novel. A crude and popular satire on Italian idiosyncrasies with a naive political message, carried by two arch comedians. "
backgrounds
The film was an Italian-French co-production; it was filmed in both language versions, so not synchronized.
Awards
- 1952: Nastro d'Argento for Fernandel as best foreign actor in an Italian film
- 1953: Silver cup for the best film "that contributes to the promotion of democratic thought"
- 1954: Nominated for the British Film Academy Award in the Best Picture category
literature
- Giovanni Guareschi : Don Camillo and Peppone. Roman (original title: Mondo piccolo "Don Camillo") . With 38 pen drawings by the author. German by Alfons Dalma . With an afterword and a chronological table by Ulrich Baron . Artemis and Winkler, Düsseldorf / Zurich 2001, ISBN 3-538-06917-4 (334 pages).
Edits for the stage
- Gerold Theobalt : Don Camillo and Peppone. Comedy . Ahn & Simrock, Munich 1999 (based on the novel Don Camillo and Peppone) .
- Riccardo F. Esposito : Don Camillo e Peppone. Cronache cinematografiche dalla Bassa Padana 1951–1965. Le Mani - Microart's, Recco (Genoa, Liguria, Italy) 2008.
Web links
- Don Camillo in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Don Camillo and Peppone in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Don Camillo and Peppone. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .