Don Camillo: Monsignor

Don Camillo: Monsignor
Directed byCarmine Gallone
Written byGiovannino Guareschi (novel)
Leo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi, Carmine Gallone
Produced byAngelo Rizzoli
StarringFernandel, Gino Cervi, Saro Urzì
CinematographyCarlo Carlini
Edited byNiccolò Lazzari
Music byAlessandro Cicognini
Release date
  • 7 October 1961 (1961-10-07)
Running time
117 min
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

Don Camillo: Monsignor is a 1961 French-Italian comedy film directed by Carmine Gallone, starring Fernandel and Gino Cervi. The French title is Don Camillo Monseigneur and the Italian title is Don Camillo monsignore... ma non troppo. It was the fourth of five films featuring Fernandel as the Italian priest Don Camillo and his struggles with Giuseppe 'Peppone' Bottazzi, the Communist mayor of their rural town. In this instalment, Don Camillo has become a monsignor and Peppone a senator.