Nobody skin like Don Camillo
| Movie | |
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| German title | Nobody skin like Don Camillo |
| Original title | Don Camillo |
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| Country of production | Italy |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 1983 |
| length | 126 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Terence Hill |
| script | Lori Hill |
| production | Terence Hill |
| music | Pino Donaggio |
| camera | Franco Di Giacomo |
| cut | Jack Fitzstephens |
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Nobody Skin Like Don Camillo is an Italian fictional film from 1983 by and with Terence Hill . The film is a remake of the 1950s and 1960s cinema series starring Fernandel , which was based on the stories about Don Camillo and Peppone by Giovannino Guareschi .
action
In a small town in the Po Valley , the local priest Don Camillo also follows the changing times. He rides a motocross bike and even has a parachuting wedding ceremony . But not everything changes. The priest's skirmishes with the communist mayor Giuseppe Bottazzi , known as “Peppone”, run like a red thread through the plot and are varied. Time and again the clergyman quarreled with the mayor, although both are actually of the same kind and neither can without the other. As soon as the first trouble has passed, new hardship threatens when Peppone, against Don Camillo's will , wants to use the construction of a local leisure home for a large-scale propaganda campaign against the church. Don Camillo only reluctantly blesses the foundation stone when Peppone learns of his wife's birth. Now Peppone wants to baptize his recently born son with the name Lenin , which Camillo indignantly refuses. So they feel compelled to fight the matter in a fist fight in the church tower and accidentally ring all the bells while the residents of Poebenes think there is a wedding.
The regular football games in the village, where everyone sends a team to the field and which are more reminiscent of fights, are symbolic of their guerrilla warfare. Peppone even bribed the referee to whistle the traditional game in his favor. Camillo's unorthodox approach is angry with his bishop, who would rather punish him sooner than later and repeatedly threaten to do so. With a victory over Peppone at the Scopaturnier , Don Camillo can temporarily put a stop to the advance of communism. But in the ensuing dialogue with God , he admits to having cheated, and he puts things right with another honest game.
Finally he gets his big chance to get back at Peppone. He bought a lottery ticket under a false name and took the main prize. As the communist mayor, however, he is forbidden from owning such an enormous sum of money, so he sends his only “friend” Don Camillo to receive the money. Camillo agrees, but refuses to give Peppone the money - among other things, because Peppone made a mistake with the given alias. In the end he receives his profit, even if only in part, since Don Camillo keeps part of it as a church donation as a price for his silence.
In addition, Don Camillo also takes care of the worries of his “little sheep”. So he lets the village girl Lilly roller-skate with her friends in the nave , as the surrounding streets are too dangerous. But he was particularly fond of the little divorced child Magrino , who may just make up jokes, but has a good heart. By helping his family to come closer again, Don Camillo also helps himself and his own salvation.
Finally, there is another soccer game in which both Don Camillo and Peppone illegally use professionals. In the end, both of them intervene in the game themselves and ultimately trigger a mass brawl. Now the bishop realizes his threat and transfers Don Camillo to a remote mountain village. When he leaves, it turns out that the whole community is behind him. Both the villagers and archenemy Peppone wish him good luck and promise to work towards his early return.
Reviews
“Remake of the well-known stories of Don Camillo and Peppone, those two fighters from the Po Valley who make life difficult for each other in a kind of love-hate relationship with their fundamentally different world views. A wide-meshed, brightly colored film - Don Camillo is now roller-skating and is even trying to perform a parachutist wedding ceremony - not convincing in all respects, but acceptable as undemanding entertainment. "
Trivia
- In contrast to the original films, this film was made in the province of Mantua . The small town of Pomponesco formed the backdrop for the place in which the action takes place; the original films were made in Brescello , Province of Reggio Emilia . All interior shoots (especially those in the church), on the other hand, took place in the Cinecittà studios in Rome .
- The film is dedicated to Giuseppe Colizzi , who had made several of their most successful films with Hill and Bud Spencer and who had died five years earlier.
- Almost all of Terence Hill's family worked on the flick. He himself acted as a leading actor, director and producer; Wife Lori wrote the script, his son Jess worked as a stuntman and his adoptive son Ross , who died in 1990, played the rascal Magrino. As in several films by Terence Hill and Bud Spencer, in which he also worked as a handyman, Sal Borgese was responsible as a stunt coordinator.
- Cyril Cusack had already been in front of the camera with Terence Hill a few years earlier; in Two Heavenly Dogs on the Way to Hell, he played the old gem miner Matto.
- The professionals used in the soccer game were some of the Italian soccer stars who were well known at the time. Roberto Boninsegna kicked for Don Camillo , while Peppone let the trio Carlo Ancelotti , Roberto Pruzzo and Luciano Spinosi appear for himself.
- Tomás Milián was originally supposed to play the role of Peppone, but he left the project before filming began.
Individual evidence
- ↑ No one skins like Don Camillo. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .