Don Camillo: Monsignor

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Don Camillo: Monsignor
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Directed by Carmine Gallone
Written by Giovannino Guareschi (novel)
Leo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi, Carmine Gallone
Produced by Angelo Rizzoli
Starring Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Saro Urzì
CinematographyCarlo Carlini
Edited byNiccolò Lazzari
Music by Alessandro Cicognini
Release date
  • 7 October 1961 (1961-10-07)
Running time
117 min
Country Italy
LanguageItalian

Don Camillo: Monsignor is a 1961 French-Italian comedy film directed by Carmine Gallone, starring Fernandel and Gino Cervi. The French title is Don Camillo Monseigneur and the Italian title is Don Camillo monsignore... ma non troppo. It was the fourth 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. In this instalment, Don Camillo has become a monsignor and Peppone a senator.

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Plot summary

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Scene from the film

In Brescello, Don Camillo and Peppone have left for Rome, after yet another battle royal. Don Camillo has become Monsignor, while Peppone has become a national senator. Both retain their pure and provincial spirit, not suitable to the crude realities of the city, and so they both contrive to return to Brescello. While Don Camillo is planning – in secret – the wedding in a Catholic ceremony of the son of Peppone, the mayor tries to bribe the bride's father to undergo a civil wedding. Don Camillo responds with a proposed deal on the sale of a gas station. Since Peppone, being a Communist, cannot be seen to deal with money, having won the Italian football pools, he decides to hide the ticket. Don Camillo unmasks him, and the two return to fight, as they prepare once again to leave for Rome.

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