The Little World of Don Camillo (1952) – Filming Locations
Comedy · Directed by Julien Duvivier · Starring Fernandel, Vera Talchi
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.
Where was The Little World of Don Camillo filmed?
- Brescello, Italy, Brescello – Primary setting of the entire film; Don Camillo's parish church and village interactions. The charming Po River village served as the authentic setting for Guareschi's story, with its actual church and streets used for filming the warmhearted community drama
- Emilia-Romagna, Italy, Parma – Pastoral landscapes and agricultural scenes throughout the film. The rich northern Italian countryside and river landscapes provided the bucolic backdrop essential to the film's rural Italian village atmosphere