The Pope assassination

Movie
Original title	The Papacy Act
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	2008
length	90 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Rainer Matsutani
script	Holger Karsten Schmidt
production	Markus Brunnemann
music	Wolfram de Marco
camera	Clemens Messow
cut	Marco Pav D'Auria
occupation
Heiner Lauterbach : Rami Hamdan Jean-Yves Berteloot : Andrea Conti Gottfried John : Paolo Naldini Gesine Cukrowski : Sara Stertz Max von Thun : Frank Dabrock Claudine Wilde : Petra Krüger Jürgen Tarrach : Herbert Glowalla Joris Gratwohl : Rami Hamdan young Kristian Kiehling : Andrea Conti young Idil Üner : Marie Hamdan Hartmut Stanke : Pope Jasmin Hahn : Policewoman Böhm Martin Rentzsch : Doctor

Das Papstattentat is a German television film that was first broadcast by RTL on March 16, 2008 .

action

Mystical signs in the sky, first in 1928 on Portugal's south coast, later in Los Angeles , California and finally in Cologne , to visit the Pope on his tour of Germany - the Vatican security men Conti and Naldini have been warned. But the BKA ignores the concerns as "superstitious hocus-pocus". In fact, however, the former Foreign Legionnaire and precision shooter Rahmi Hamdan, called by everyone just the surgeon , was recruited to shoot the Pope while bathing in the crowd for € 25 million. Hamdan positions himself on the roof of one of the surrounding houses and lets the necessary preparations run. Meanwhile, there are increasing signs that an assassination attempt on Pope Clement XXIII. could be planned, and Stertz and Dabrock from the BKA are now also letting the Sonderkommando keep a watchful eye on the Pope. When Andrea Conti calls out a warning just a second before Hamdan's fatal shots, the Pope's bodyguards take up position and intercept the fatal shots. The Pope is saved and a renewed conclave is unnecessary. Finally, in the hospital, Naldini turns out to be the one involved in a plot from within his own ranks.

useful information

• The film is a so-called event film , as a lot of pyrotechnics and firearms are used, so over 800 bullets were pyrotechnically and 21 bullets were simulated on bodies.
• The film is available on DVD.

reception

"Fictional action thriller with a perfectly conceivable background to the Pope's assassination attempt on May 13, 1981, which tells its story with speed and a good team of actors."

- Lexicon of international film

Single receipts

1. ^ Film review of the Lexikons des Internationale Films , accessed on December 5, 2008

Web links

• The Pope's assassination in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The Pope assassination at crew united