Gift Camillo

Don Camillo is the name of a character of fiction created in 1948 by the humorist, writer, journalist and Italian draftsman Giovannino Guareschi. Hero of long series of humorous news, Don Camillo is the priest of an Italian small village which is devoted to a war of influence with Peppone, the mayor Communiste. Don Camillo often discusses with the statue the Christ her church, which generally answers him on a familiar tone. Rivals, but linked by a form of sympathy reciprocal, Gift Camillo and Peppone live often picaresques adventures, which result sometimes in physical confrontations, in long series of stories to the generally ironic tone but sometimes darker. Guareschi, militant anticommunist, intended to turn in derision the political situation of its country and the weight of the Italian Communist party. The news putting in the high-speed motorboat Don Camillo was published in the weekly magazine Candido . Three collections were published the alive one of Guareschi, five after its death.

Adaptation to the cinema

The great success of the news inspired in 1951 an adaptation to the cinema, the Small world of Gift Camillo , coproduction Italian-French. Gino Cervi was initially to incarnate Don Camillo and Guareschi itself to play the part of Peppone. But the director Julien Duvivier, dissatisfied with this distribution, made very to dissuade Guareschi, which renonça finally. Gino Cervi assumed finally the role of Peppone, while Fernandel was called to take the high-speed motorboat of film. In spite of the little of resemblance to the literary character (the Gift Camillo de Guareschi is supposed being a colossus), Fernandel is definitively attached, in the spirit of the public, with the image of Gift Camillo. Duvivier still turned the Return of Gift Camillo (1953), then of what Carmine Braided took again the torch and put in scene the Great brawl of Gift Camillo (1955) and Don Camillo Monseigneur (1961). Finally, it is Luigi Comencini which will carry out Don Camillo in Russia in (1965).

The turning of Gift Camillo and the protestors were stopped by the disease of Fernandel. The film was finally made in 1971 with Gastone Moschin in the role of Gift Camillo and Lionel Stander in that of Peppone (Gino Cervi refusing to turn with another actor that Fernandel, just like the realizer Christian-Jaque, who will thus be replaced by Mario Camerini), but the public, not recognizing the heroes more, was sulky it.

In 1983, Terence Hill carried out and interpreted a Remake Gift Camillo.

Pastiche

The popularity of the character such as the mark of pastes Panzani created the character of Don Patillo , was charged with symbolizing its products in a series of Publicité S. the actor André Aubert incarnated Don Patillo by imitating the interpretation of Fernandel.

Fernandel itself will pastichera Don Camillo in the World's wonder where he plays the part of a honest priest whose resemblance to Don Camillo makes the life impossible.

Around film

the Small world of Gift Camillo is currently in 4th place with the French boxoffice, just behind the Visitors , while adding up a little more than 12 million entries.

External bonds

The Little World off Gift Camillo
Gift Camillo Web - dcw.it

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