In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community. If in secret, they admired and liked each other, politics still divided them as it is dividing the country. And when the mayor wants his "People's House"; the priest wants his "Garden City" for the poor. Division exist between the richest and the poorest, the pious and the atheists and even between lovers. But if the people are hard as the country, they are good in the bottom of there heart.

Fernandel
as Don Camillo Tarocci

Gino Cervi
as Giuseppe Bottazzi "Peppone"

Vera Talchi
as Gina Filotti

Franco Interlenghi
as Mariolino Brusco

Saro Urzì
as Brusco

Charles Vissières
as Il Vescovo

Sylvie
as Signora Cristina

Clara Auteri Pepe
as Clara Auteri

Italo Clerici
as Barchini

Peppino De Martino
as Assessore
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Fernandel is great in this comedy drama set after the end of the Second World War in Italy. He's the eponymous churchman who is watching his country at a crossroads between the old and the new ways of thinking. The town has just elected a communist mayor, nicknamed "Peppone" (Gino Cervi) and it seem...