Don Camillo in Moscow

1965 film

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Don Camillo in Moscow

Directed by| Luigi Comencini
Screenplay by| Piero De Bernardi
Story by| Leo Benvenuti
Based on| Don Camillo
by Giovannino Guareschi
Produced by| Luigi Comencini
Starring| Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Gianni Garko, Graziella Granata
Cinematography| Armando Nannuzzi
Edited by| Nino Baragli
Music by| Alessandro Cicognini

Release date

* September 18, 1965 (1965-09-18)

Running time

| 109 minutes
Countries| Italy, France, West Germany
Languages| Italian, French, Russian

Don Camillo in Moscow (Italian: Il compagno Don Camillo, "Comrade Don Camillo"; French: Don Camillo en Russie, "Don Camillo in Russia") is a 1965 Italian comedy film directed by Luigi Comencini. It was the fifth film in the Don Camillo series.

## Plot[edit]

After receiving a tractor as a gift from the collective farm (kolkhoz) of a Soviet village on the Don River, Communist mayor Peppone plans to twin Brescello with the unnamed village. After some failed attempts to block the mayor's plan, the anti-Communist Don Camillo ultimately tricks Peppone into including him (under a false name and with forged papers) among the Italian Communist representatives passing through the Iron Curtain to attend the twinning ceremonies. Only Peppone and the other comrades from Brescello know the priest's real identity. During the Russian stay, they face a series of situations that will show them both the political contradictions of Soviet Russia and the normal life of its common people.[1]

## Cast[edit]

* Fernandel as Don Camillo
* Gino Cervi as Giuseppe "Peppone" Bottazzi
* Leda Gloria as Maria Bottazzi
* Gianni Garko as Scamoggia
* Saro Urzì as Brusco
* Graziella Granata as Nadia
* Paul Muller as Le pope
* Marco Tulli as Smilzo
* Jacques Herlin as Perletti
* Silla Bettini as Bigio
* Aldo Vasco as Un camarade
* Alessandro Gottlieb as Ivan
* Mirko Valentin as Le faux russe
* Ettore Geri as Oregov
* Margherita Sala as La femme d'Ivan

## External links[edit]

* Il compagno Don Camillo at IMDb

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Don Camillo in Moscow (1965) - IMDb". IMDb.

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Films directed by Luigi Comencini

* Hey Boy (1948)
* The Emperor of Capri (1949)
* Behind Closed Shutters (1951)
* Heidi (1952)
* Girls Marked Danger (1953)
* La valigia dei sogni (1953)
* Bread, Love and Dreams (1953)
* Bread, Love and Jealousy (1954)
* The Belle of Rome (1955)
* The Window to Luna Park (1957)
* Husbands in the City (1957)
* Mogli pericolose (1958)
* Le sorprese dell'amore (1959)
* And That on Monday Morning (1959)
* Everybody Go Home (1960)
* On the Tiger's Back (1961)
* The Police Commissioner (1962)
* Bebo's Girl (1963)
* Three Nights of Love (1964)
* My Wife (1964)
* Don Camillo in Moscow (1965)
* Six Days a Week (1965)
* Le bambole (1965)
* Incompreso (1966)
* Italian Secret Service (1968)
* Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence (1969)
* Senza sapere niente di lei (1969)
* The Adventures of Pinocchio (1972)
* The Scientific Cardplayer (1973)
* Somewhere Beyond Love (1974)
* Till Marriage Do Us Part (1974)
* The Sunday Woman (1975)
* Basta che non si sappia in giro (1976)
* Strange Occasion (1976)
* Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (1976)
* The Cat (1977)
* Traffic Jam (1978)
* Eugenio (1980)
* Cercasi Gesù (1982)
* Cuore (1984)
* La Storia (1986)
* A Boy from Calabria (1987)
* La Bohème (1988)
* Merry Christmas... Happy New Year (1989)
* Marcellino (1992)

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