Reverend Don Camillo

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Movie
German title Reverend Don Camillo
Original title Don Camillo monsignore ... ma non troppo
Country of production Italy
original language Italian
Publishing year 1961
length 117 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Carmine gallon
script Leo Benvenuti
Piero De Bernardi
Carmine Gallon
production Robert Chabert
music Alessandro Cicognini
camera Carlo Carlini
cut Niccolò Lazzari
occupation

Reverend Don Camillo (Don Camillo monsignore… ma non troppo) is the fourth film in the Don Camillo and Peppone series, which is based on the stories of Giovanni Guareschi . Fernandel and Gino Cervi took on the lead roles again.

action

In contrast to the previous films, the action does not begin in Brescello , but in Rome . Peppone has been a Communist Party MP in the Senate for three years , where he is bored. Don Camillo has risen to the position of monsignor and for the curia a . a. busy receiving groups of visitors and dictating letters, which is just as boring for him.

So it suits both of them that something should happen in their home village that even distant Rome has to deal with: The Communist Party , which is in the majority in the town hall of Brescello, wants to build houses for the poor population. On one of the building plots, however, there is the saint's house with the Madonna of Borghetto, which is to give way to the building.

The dispute over the demolition is carried to Rome. There Peppone was given the task of enforcing the interests of the communists. At the same time, a young priest comes to Don Camillo to get good advice on the trip to Brescello, where he should represent the interests of the Church. With a ruse, Don Camillo succeeds in getting the task assigned to him.

So both of them set off at the same time, use the same sleeper train towards Parma and also happen to meet in the same compartment. No one tells the other his real reason for the trip. While Peppone is picked up at the train station the next morning by car, Don Camillo continues the journey with the slow train. They meet again at the Brescello train station and march together into the village, all under the sign of relaxation, the "distensione" .

Later on at the construction site, Don Camillo manages to win over the assembled population and the press present with a clever speech. He donated the property to the community on the condition that half of the apartments to be built be occupied by people selected by the church. All Peppone needs to do is tear down the wayside shrine with the Madonna. The population protested, however, and Peppone could not manage to strike with the pickaxe. The attempt to tear it off with a wire rope that is looped around the Madonna and hung on a truck also fails because the wire breaks. This seems like a miracle to the population present - further demolition attempts are not made.

Overnight Peppone comes up with the saving idea: The Madonna remains standing and it is built around her. The one apartment that is less created will be deducted from the apartments due to the church.

A new dispute arises between the two protagonists because Peppone's eldest son, Walter, wants to get married, but Peppone only allows a civil wedding in the town hall. The dispute was not yet resolved when Don Camillo had difficulties bathing in the Po river . The communist Gisela steals his clothes on the bank, so that Don Camillo has to swim to the other bank and buy new clothes. Also Peppone has other problems: He wins in Toto 10 million lire (in the German dubbing the lottery). However, he handed in the ticket under the pseudonym Pepito Sbazzeguti in a bar frequented by communists and cannot claim the winnings without being recognized. Nor could he keep the money to himself if his comrades knew about it. Don Camillo suggests a deal: he picks up the winnings from the lottery company and gives it to Peppone, who also lets his son marry in church - in an abandoned church on the river, so that the rest of the community does not notice.

After these problems have been resolved, the next disaster threatens: Don Camillo finds out who stole his clothes at the river, pulls a sack over Gisela's head before she can recognize him, and Gisela's husband paints her bottom with red paint. This personal act of revenge is viewed by the communists as an attack on the party itself and answered with a general strike in the village.

After the global political situation has worsened at the same time (newspaper headline: " American U2 shot down over Russia"), the strike spreads to the whole country. Demonstrators from Brescello are sent by motorcycle to the provincial capital of Reggio nell'Emilia , where one of the participants is killed in a clash with the police. For the funeral of the killed demonstrator, Peppone asked for the church bells to be rung, which Don Camillo initially refused because the funeral procession did not want to stop in the church. So Peppone creates a huge bell with his own money from the toto profit, has it set up on the market square and gives it to the city. As the funeral procession marches on the piazza, however, Don Camillo joins the ringing of the city bell.

In the end, both are ordered back to Rome. Don Camillo tries to delay his departure by giving Peppone the order to manipulate the carriage intended for the return journey; On the contrary, the car is professionally serviced by Peppone and thus properly put in order. The two meet again on the highway: Don Camillo takes Peppone in his car to the next major train station. As a farewell, Peppone hands Don Camillo a visiting card and in exchange receives a picture of a saint.

Madonnina del Borghetto

Special

The wayside shrine shown in the film, called “Madonnina del Borghetto”, still exists in the same place today, although the masonry looks completely different after restoration.

The car that Don Camillo is picked up in is an Alfa Romeo 2500 6C Carrozzeria Boneschi, and it was by no means new when the film was made in the early 1960s, but at least 12 years old. Alfas from the early 1950s still had the steering wheel on the right-hand side despite right-hand traffic. Before Peppone sets out to make the car unfit to drive, he remarks in the German dubbed version, "And the FIAT works may forgive me."

Fernandel speaks his dialogues in French as usual, which is why his voice was dubbed for the original version by the Italian narrator Carlo Romano .

The title is incorrectly translated into German: the decisive point of the plot is that Don Camillo is not used as a pastor - which, as with other priests, is associated with the predicate "Reverend" in German (and Don in Italian ), but at the Roman Curia (and in this context has received an honorary title with the title monsignor according to usage ); But this "ma non troppo", so not too much (because he is drawn back to his old parish).

Reviews

  • "An amusing and funny comedy in parts in continuation of the well-known crude type of the" Don Camillo "films, which turned out to be a bit coarse compared to its predecessors." - Lexicon of international films

Edits for the stage

  • Riccardo F. Esposito : Don Camillo e Peppone. Cronache cinematografiche dalla Bassa Padana 1951–1965 , Le Mani - Microart's, Recco (Genoa, Liguria, Italy), 2008.

DVD release

  • Reverend Don Camillo . Fourth film of the collector's edition (5-DVD set) Don Camillo & Peppone . Kinowelt Home Entertainment 2003

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ translated from Italian Wikipedia
  2. ^ See again the Italian entry: "Doppiatori italiani" - Italian voice actor: Carlo Romano for Fernandel
  3. ^ Rev. Don Camillo. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used