Don Camillo in Moscow (Italian: Il compagno Don Camillo, "Comrade Don Camillo"; French: Don Camillo en Russie, "Don Camillo in Russia") is a 1965 French-German-Italian comedy film directed by Luigi Comencini. It was the fifth film in the Don Camillo series.
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Plot
After receiving a tractor as a gift from the collective farm (kolkhoz) of a Soviet village on the Don River, Communist mayor Peppone plans to twin Brescello with the unnamed village. After some failed attempts to block the mayor's plan, the anti-Communist Don Camillo ultimately tricks Peppone into including him (under a false name and with forged papers) among the Italian Communist representatives passing through the Iron Curtain to attend the twinning ceremonies. Only Peppone and the other comrades from Brescello know the priest's real identity. During the Russian stay, they face a series of situations that will show them both the political contradictions of Soviet Russia and the normal life of its common people.
Cast
Fernandel as Don Camillo
Gino Cervi as Giuseppe "Peppone" Bottazzi
Leda Gloria as Maria Bottazzi
Gianni Garko as Scamoggia
Saro Urzì as Brusco
Graziella Granata as Nadia
Paul Muller as Le pope
Marco Tulli as Smilzo
Jacques Herlin as Perletti
Silla Bettini as Bigio
Aldo Vasco as Un camarade
Alessandro Gottlieb as Ivan
Mirko Valentin as Le faux russe
Ettore Geri as Oregov
Margherita Sala as La femme d'Ivan