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Fernandel has 9 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 1960s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by The Little World of Don Camillo.
Teacher's Pet
1958
Comedy · Romance
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.
Dir. Julien Duvivier · With Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Vera Talchi
Bewildered, Don Camillo learns that Peppone intends to stand for parliament. Determined to thwart his ambitions, the good priest, ignoring the recommendations of the Lord, decides to campaign against him.
Dir. Carmine Gallone · With Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Claude Sylvain
Energetic priest Don Camillo returns to the town of Brescello for more political and personal duels with Communist mayor Peppone.
Dir. Julien Duvivier · With Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Arturo Bragaglia
Priest Don Camillo blackmails his friendly rival Peppone into letting him join a Communist delegation visiting the Soviet Union.
Dir. Luigi Comencini · With Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Graziella Granata
Don Camillo (now bishop) and Peppone (now senator) return to the town of Brescello and rekindle their friendly rivalry.
Dir. Carmine Gallone · With Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Gina Rovere
A group of travelers, including a monk, stay in a lonely inn in the mountains. The host confesses the monk his habit of serving poisoned soup to the guests, to rob their possessions and to bury them in the backyard.
Dir. Claude Autant-Lara · With Fernandel, Françoise Rosay, Marie-Claire Olivia
After thirteen years in Germany, Fernand is coming back to his wife and his restaurant. But since his disparition, his wife as made her life with a norman chef, sympathetic but a specialist of butter's cooking when Fernand cook only with oil!
Dir. Gilles Grangier · With Fernandel, Bourvil, Claire Maurier
In 1942, a French prisonner of war in Germany decide to escape to France using a cow hold by a lunge as a decoy. He cross all Germany in this way.
Dir. Henri Verneuil · With Fernandel, René Havard, Bernard Musson
A lord’s servant, Ali Baba, is sent to retrieve a slave for his master, but ends up on an adventure filled with gold, mischief, love, and forty famous thieves instead.
Dir. Jacques Becker · With Fernandel, Samia Gamal, Dieter Borsche
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