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Throwback Thursday - Il compagno Don Camillo (1965) (Patreon)

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2015-11-12 15:55:13

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2026-06

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It's ‪‎Throwback Thursday‬!

Check out Iginio Lardani's beautiful hand-lettering for Italian comedy Don Camillo in Moscow. Lardani, best known for his vibrant Spaghetti Western titles, here embraces simplicity and mischief.

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Il compagno Don Camillo

In the opening title sequence of the 1965 comedy Il compagno don Camillo, also known as Don Camillo in Moscow, a couple of madcaps get into a tussle. The conflict at the film’s heart is between two community leaders in a small town in northern Italy just after the Second World War: Don Camillo (Fernandel), the lumbering, tempestuous priest, and Giuseppe Bottazzi (Gino Cervi), better known as Peppone, the town’s communist mayor.