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The Little World of Don Camillo
FRANCE · 1952

The Little World of Don Camillo

Julien Duvivier
priest vs communist mayor rural Italian village life political ideology conflict class divide and poverty hidden mutual respect
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Synopsis

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 a

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