The Little World of Don Camillo (No. 1 in the Don Camillo series)

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Contains Gente così - Mondo piccolo (Collana BUR, Rizzoli, 1984) – posthumously published Don Camillo stories originally written between 1948 and 1953. a b "TOP250 tous les temps en France (Reprises incluses)". JP's Box-office . Retrieved October 3, 2019.

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It has always been odd to me - an atheist since my teens - that I love these books so much, but I came to realise over time that the stories are not about the triumph of Christianity over Communism but rather the triumph of humanity over cruelty, ignorance and brutality. Don Camillo ( pronounced [ˈdɔŋ kaˈmillo]) and Peppone ( pronounced [pepˈpoːne]) are the fictional protagonists of a series of works by the Italian writer and journalist Giovannino Guareschi set in what Guareschi refers to as the "small world" of rural Italy after World War II. Most of the Don Camillo stories came out in the weekly magazine Candido, founded by Guareschi with Giovanni Mosca. These "Little World" (Italian: Piccolo Mondo) stories amounted to 347 in total and were put together and published in eight books, only the first three of which were published when Guareschi was still alive. Contains stories which were not in a specific Italian-language edition (the original English edition was published under the same title in 1954)

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The stories in this collection are fun.....but they are really not for me. I have read about half of them, and I have had enough. I do not think it is advisable to read one story after another, but neither do I have the urge to return to them after I have put them aside. You should at least try a few of the stories. Get the book at the library, then you can return it when you have had enough.

The Little World of Don Camillo (TV Series 1981– ) - IMDb The Little World of Don Camillo (TV Series 1981– ) - IMDb

Christian-Jaque began filming the French-Italian film Don Camillo e i giovani d'oggi [11] in 1970 but had to stop filming due to Fernandel's falling ill, which resulted in his untimely death. The film was then realized in 1972 by Mario Camerini with Gastone Moschin playing the role of Don Camillo and Lionel Stander as Peppone. A Don Camillo ( The World of Don Camillo; Italian: Don Camillo) film was remade in 1983, an Italian production with Terence Hill directing and also starring as Don Camillo. Colin Blakely performed Peppone in one of his last film roles. [12] Radio [ edit ] But this need not be, for "Le Petit Monde de Don Camillo" (1951) does exist in an English-dubbed version. The only one of the five films to get the treatment, it is quite well done (once you get around the fact that it's dubbed in the first place). "King of Dubbers" Robert Rietti (Rietty) takes on the roles of both Don Camillo and Peppone, while none other than Orson Welles provides the voice-over narration and, in that capacity, the voice of Christ which Don Camillo hears in answer to his prayers. The narration is intrusive at times (they got their money's worth out of Welles), but the movie overall is a faithful adaptation and interweaving of some of the more memorable early Don Camillo tales. In Le Petit Monde de Don Camillo (released in Italy as simply Don Camillo) one of the characteristics is a certain balance between the two countries, since the original author, the place of action, and one of the two stars are Italian, while the director, the screenwriters, and the first star are French. The crew and the rest of the cast are also equally divided between both nations. Don Camillo: Monsignor (Italian: Don Camillo monsignore ma non troppo; French: Don Camillo Monseigneur) [9] (1961) Contains La favola di Natale (Edizioni Riunite, 1946 - Guareschi's war-time experiences) alongside Don Camillo Christmas stories.Ecco i cento film italiani da salvare Corriere della Sera". www.corriere.it . Retrieved 2021-03-11. Guareschi is a world-weary comedic writer who had lived through the Mussolini era, two world wars and a German prison camp. He isn't putting fascists in these stories, but he finds a lot of humor in pitting dogma against dogma. And while it's clear that he is no communist sympathizer, he puts heart into all sides of the conversation. I should add, for the *very* knowledgeable Don Camillo film fan, that the dubbed version of "Little World" is based on the Italian rather than the French cut of the original movie (director Julien Duvivier and the mostly bilingual cast shot the two versions simultaneously). Thus, certain scenes that appeared in the French release but were excised by the censors in stricter Italy will not be in the English version.

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The film had four sequels, thus totaling five films plus one unfinished due to Fernandel's sudden death:

Senza la serie di film ispirata ai libri di Guareschi, che ho sempre "adorato" e che non perdo occasione di rivedere in tv ogni volta che li trasmettono, probabilmente il mio giudizio sarebbe stato leggermente inferiore: un po' perché non sospettavo minimamente che il Don Camillo non fosse un romanzo con un corpo unitario, bensì un insieme di scenette che alla fine compongono un quadro abbastanza variegato e omogeneo, un po' perché in alcuni frangenti il linguaggio è superato e talvolta ci sono riferimenti a usanze contadine della Bassa con l'utilizzo di termini a me incomprensibili. The vignettes generally become turf wars between Don Camillo against Peppone and his cast of idiologues, battles concerning power and influence. Pissing contests ensue amidst labor strikes and Bishop visits. The village itself has a very Old World feel to it, heavily agricultural, a close-knit community still in pain from the continental wars. Don Camillo, prone to stealing machine guns from the local communist militias, is an outsized figure. As fanciful as it seems to create such a satire, I imagine it captures some semblence of midcentury Italian culture.

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a river blessing procession and the funeral of the town's generally respected old teacher, Ms. Christina, which are both kept strictly non-political despite the Communists' initial intentions.In one story, Don Camillo visits the Soviet Union, pretending to be a comrade. In another, the arrival of pop culture and motorcycles propels Don Camillo into fighting "decadence", a struggle in which he finds he has his hands full, especially when Christ mainly smiles benevolently on the young rascals. In this later collection, Peppone is the owner of several profitable dealerships, riding the "Boom" years of the 1960s in Italy. He is no longer quite the committed Communist he once was, but he still does not get on with Don Camillo – at least not in public. Don Camillo has his own problems: the Second Vatican Council has brought changes in the Church, and a new assistant priest, who comes to be called Don Chichì, has been foisted upon him to see that Don Camillo moves with the times. Don Camillo, of course, has other ideas.