I CAMMELLI

Giuseppe Bertolucci, 1988
i cammelli

A strange convoy is travelling around the Po Delta. Camillo (Diego Abatantuomo), manager and producer of average-quality shows signs in Ferruccio Ferri, (Paolo rossi) a young and gullible guy who is very knowledgeable about camels, unbeaten champion of a quiz show “Chi ne sa di più”.The two are then accompanied by a driver who is also a jack of all trades and by a grotesque singer,(Sabina Guzzanti), secretely loved by Camillo. They leave from Carpi with a camel and cross the lower Po Valley they head for Milan where Ferruccio Ferri will join a tv quiz show.

LOCATION Several film sequences were shot in an area between Mesola, Comacchio and its valleys.
In one of the initial sequences the protagonist, Ferruccio, is chased through the Piazza del Castello di Mesola (Piazza Umberto I) and along the Po bank and then also over the famous Trepponti of the lagoon city. Later on the convoy is portrayed while travelling across the Valli di Comacchio.