Giovanni Guareschi

"La Rabbia" employs documentary footage (from the 1950's) and accompanying commentary to attempt to answer the existential question, Why are our lives characterized by discontent, anguish, and fear? The film is in two completely separate parts, and the directors of these respective sections, left-wing Pier Paolo Pasolini and conservative Giovanni Guareschi, offer the viewer contrasting analyses of and prescriptions for modern society. (imdb)

Don Camillo (Terence Hill), the parish priest, is no shrinking violet. His straight talk and willingness to use his fists keep getting him into trouble with the church hierarchy. Giuseppe Botazzi, the town mayor known as Peppone (Colin Blakely), is a communist and therefore always arguing with Don Camillo. The fights between the priest and the mayor of the small Italian town are legendary. (xploitedcinema.com)

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. (imdb)

After his battles with the communist mayor Peppone, Don Camillo is sent in exile by his bishop in a remote village. (imdb)

Fernandel and Gino Cervi return as, repectively, resourceful Italian village priest Don Camillo and his friendly enemy, Communist mayor Peppone. This time, the two adversaries are pitted against each other in a local election, even though neither one wants to win. Don Camillo comes out on top by promising to help Peppone pass an important qualifying exam, in exchange for a new church construction project. (Allmovie)

The village of mayor Peppone and Don Camillo, after much dispute, gets a assigned a sister village in Russia. When Peppone and his comrades decide to attend the ceremony on the other side of the iron curtain, Don Camillo wants to join. Peppone is strictly against this but after Don Camillo threatens him to disclose information about an earlier side step the mayor agrees. Don Camillo arranges for false papers: He is now comrade Tarocci. Only Peppone and the other villagers know who he really is. (imdb)

Carlotta, a noblewoman in disgrace, accepts to marry Camillo, a rough service-station attendant, in order to inherit her uncle's fortune. There is a condition: Camillo must spend some time in a Swiss college to learn how to behave properly. (bfi)