“It wasn’t too hot”: Fernandel had to struggle to convince him that he would be ideal for Don Camillo

In the five films with 32 million assumptions, the saga Don Camilo is inseparable from these actors: Gino Tserva in the Peppon and the role of a priest in Fernand, who is in the dialogue of Jesus. At the same time, and in contrast, what they might think, it did not win the French actor with Marseille’s accent to take the role, especially from the Italian community.

In 1965, Fernandel returned during this period when he first contacted the role and the difficultiesThrough inss:):

“You have to tell yourself that Italians …”

“I got in the movie. You have to tell me that the Italians were told that Fernandel was going to play Don Camillo. He was pushing for high crying.

“Duvivier and French co -producer Robert Chabert are the only ones who had confidence in me and who demanded that I play the role.

Fernandel and Duvivier, Productive Cooperation

Fernandell and Julien Duvivier have collaborated many times beyond Don Camillo’s Little World (1952) and Don Camillo (1953), as they also worked from the ball book (1937), then had a man waterproof (1957) and the devils and the commandments (1962), in which Fernande …

After the first colossal successfully adopted Opus (12.79 million access to France!), Saga Don Camillo will be enriched with four additional episodes shot in 1953 and 1965. It was in 1970, the sixth Opus team called Don Camillo and the protesters who never stopped shooting. He died in February 1971 at the age of 67.