Entre l’Italie et la France Le Petit Monde de Don Camillo, du livre de Giovanni Guareschi aux films de Julien Duvivier

The adventures of Don Camillo and Peppone occupy a central place in French cinematographic culture. Le Petit Monde de Don Camillo belongs to the repertoire of popular cinema classics. Explanations for this triumphal welcome can be found in the success of the book, the popularity of Fernandol, and, without doubt, the possibility it offered to the French people to laugh about a political subject which, at the beginning of the 1950s, was hardly considered comical.