Don Camillo: Monsignor

Don Camillo: Monsignor (Italian: Don Camillo monsignore ma non troppo; French: Don Camillo Monseigneur) 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 Monsignor, Don Camillo has become a bishop and Peppone a senator.[1]

Don Camillo: Monsignor
Directed byCarmine Gallone
Produced byAngelo Rizzoli
Written byGiovannino Guareschi (novel)
Leo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi, Carmine Gallone
StarringFernandel, Gino Cervi, Saro Urzì
Music byAlessandro Cicognini
CinematographyCarlo Carlini
Edited byNiccolò Lazzari
Release date
7 October 1961
Running time
117 min
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

Plot summary

In Brescello, Don Camillo and Peppone have left for Rome, after yet another battle royal. Don Camillo has become a 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 lottery, 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.

Cast

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

References
  1. "Don Camillo Monseigneur". AlloCiné (in French). Tiger Global. Retrieved 2014-08-07.
  2. Il compagno Don Camillo at IMDb
  3. Don Camillo e i giovani d'oggi at IMDb


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