Don Camillo's Last Round

Don Camillo's Last Round is a 1955 French-Italian comedy film directed by Carmine Gallone, starring Fernandel and Gino Cervi. The French title is La grande bagarre de Don Camillo and the Italian title is Don Camillo e l'onorevole Peppone. It was the third of five films featuring Fernandel as the Italian priest Don Camillo and his struggles with Giuseppe 'Peppone' Bottazzi, the Communist mayor of their rural town. The film had 5,087,231 admissions in France.[1]

Don Camillo's Last Round
-Don Camillo e l'Onorevole Peppone
Directed byCarmine Gallone
Produced byAngelo Rizzoli
Written byGiovannino Guareschi (novel)
Age & Scarpelli, Giovannino Guareschi, Leo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi, René Barjavel
StarringGino Cervi, Fernandel, Claude Sylvain
Music byAlessandro Cicognini
CinematographyAnchise Brizzi
Edited byNiccolò Lazzari
Release date
  • 1955 (1955)
Running time
97 min
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

Plot

In the small town of Brescello,skirmishes are continuing between the parish priest Don Camillo and the Communist mayor Peppone Bottazzi. After staging a theft of Don Camillo's prized chickens in retribution for a political prank pulled by the priest, Peppone decides to enter the big time of politics by standing for national senator. Peppone has been assisted by a winsome young lady comrade sent from the big city to assist him, but the mayor's wife - suspecting more - complains to Don Camillo, who endeavours to remedy the threatened domestic breakdown.

Cast

Sequel
  • Don Camillo: Monsignor (Italian: Don Camillo monsignore ma non troppo; French: Don Camillo Monseigneur)[2] (1961)
  • Don Camillo in Moscow (Italian: Il compagno don Camillo; French: Don Camillo en Russie)[3] (1965)
  • Don Camillo e i giovani d'oggi (French: Don Camillo et les contestataires; English translated: Don Camillo and the youth of today) [4] (1970) (unfinished film)

References
  1. "La Grande bagarre de Don Camillo". AlloCiné (in French). Tiger Global. Retrieved 2014-08-07.
  2. Don Camillo monsignore ma non troppo on IMDb
  3. Il compagno Don Camillo on IMDb
  4. Don Camillo e i giovani d'oggi on IMDb


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