Karol - a man who became Pope

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Movie
German title Karol - a man who became Pope
Original title Karol, un uomo diventato papa
Country of production Italy , Poland
original language English
Publishing year 2005
length 180 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Giacomo Battiato
script Giacomo Battiato
Gianfranco Svidercoschi (novel)
production Pietro Valsecchi
music Ennio Morricone
camera Giovanni Mammolotti
cut Alessandro Heffler
occupation
synchronization

The film Karol - A Man Who Became Pope (Polish: Karol - człowiek, który został papieżem ) was based on the novel of the same name by the writer Gianfranco Svidercoschi and tells of the early years in the life of the later Pope John Paul II. Thematically, the two-part series extends from his Studies until his election as Pope . The time between his election as Pope and his death is dealt with in the two-part film Karol - Pope und Mensch .

The German-language first broadcast took place on March 26 and 27, 2006 on RTL II .

action

First part

September 1939: The German Wehrmacht invades Poland . The young Karol Wojtyła studies philosophy and Polish literature in Kraków and works privately in a Therater group, for which he also writes dramas. When the German troops march in, he worries about his Jewish friends. He decides to enlist for military service; despite his protest, his father is also ready to take up arms. In the meantime, Governor General Hans Frank occupies the Kraków Wawel . While walking with his father, Wojtyła befriends little Josef, who dies a little later in a bombing raid by German airmen.

As his Jewish childhood friend Hanna Tuszynska observed, the consequences of the German attack did not stop at his birthplace, Wadowice . Concern for her friends leads Hanna to stay in Wadowice.

In the meantime the Polish army has suffered a defeat after Poland was attacked by Soviet troops on the basis of the Hitler-Stalin pact . Wojtyła and his father return to Krakow; his father's health begins to decline. At the university, he and his fellow students are fighting for Poland under Professor Wójcik. Governor General Hans Frank is meanwhile planning to paralyze cultural life in Poland and to establish German conditions. When Professor Wójcik protests, Hans Frank has him shot; the professors who were not shot are brought to Sachsenhausen camp. In Krakow ghetto reign illness and death. Wojtyła's friend, Father Tomasz Zaleski, is invited to dinner at Hans Frank's and is shocked by the cold-heartedness that is spread there.

Hanna witnessed the destruction of the synagogue in Wadowice. Shortly afterwards, Hanna's family is also abducted. Her questions about the meaning of all the suffering also cast doubt on Wojtyła. With Tomasz's help, Wojtyła finds a job in the quarry, where he befriends Maciej Nowak. Most of his friends want to take up arms in the fight against the Germans. Wojtyła shares the position of his friend Mieczyslaw, preferring to fight with the means of the word. When the secret service storms a secret theater group meeting, it can be disguised as an engagement party just in time. Her friends Wiktor Milosz and Krystyna are executed.

Wojtyła met Jan Tyranowski , who met him with St. John of the Cross familiarizes him and admonishes him that it is the wrong way to answer violence with more violence. He toyed with the idea of ​​going to the monastery. After the death of his father, he secretly begins to study theology . One day, when Wojtyła was hit by a truck, he was taken to hospital at the behest of a German officer. He broke internally with the Nazi regime and is being executed. Hans Frank also has Father Tomasz Zaleski shot, who provided the officer with spiritual assistance.

Wojtyła is ordained a priest; Hanna is shocked that he has decided in favor of the church and against her love. At the same time, the Soviet troops drive the German army out of Poland; a little later, Hans Frank was executed at the Nuremberg trials . Julian Kordek from the Soviet secret service takes command.

Second part

As a priest in Cracow, Wojtyła tries in vain to prevent the arrest of Monsignor Kurowski by the Soviet secret service.

In 1953 Wojtyła meets his childhood sweetheart Hanna again, who has since married and is expecting a child. Meanwhile, all theological faculties in the country have been closed and are now controlled by a newly established faculty in Warsaw. Wojtyła should now teach ethics in the only still independent faculty in Lublin. A little later he was able to save Hanna's husband Pawel from being shot by the secret service, after which the secret service did not print the eulogy for Josef Stalin . The Warsaw Archbishop Stefan Wyszyński is placed under arrest. Hanna and Pawel decide to flee to America.

Meanwhile, Kordek puts the art student Adam Zielinski as an informant on Wojtyła. He listens to Wojtyła's lectures and makes friends with student Maria Pomarska, who falls in love with him. He installs a bug in Wojtyła's confessional. Wojtyła goes on excursions and sports activities with the students. One day Wojtyła helps the insecure working student Witold Brozek, who initially thinks Wojtyła is a fellow student and then reacts in surprise when he turns out to be his examiner and lets him pass the exam.

One day Wojtyła receives a visit from Maciej Nowak, his friend from the quarry. He tells of his new love Magda and of his resistance against the Soviets. From Wojtyła himself, however, there are no words critical of the government that the secret service could use against him. In June 1956 Nowak takes part in the workers' uprising in Poznan , which is bloodily suppressed; Magda's little son Piotr dies. To Maria's reassurance, Wojtyła finds out that her father survived the uprising; Witold Brozek, however, was one of the fatalities. In memory of his encounter with Jan Tyranowski , Wojtyła urges his students to answer violence not with further violence, but with words.

Under the new party leader Władysław Gomułka , Stefan Wyszyński was released from arrest in 1956. In 1958, Wojtyła was ordained a bishop by Eugeniusz Baziak . His friend Nowak still suffers from the long-term effects of his fight against the Soviets. Wojtyła manages to get half a seminar from Kordek. On the other hand, however, a conflict about building a church in Nowa Huta is emerging . Wojtyła learns from Pawel that Hanna has given birth to a son named Jan, but that he has lung cancer and only has a short time to live.

In 1962 Wojtyła took part in the Second Vatican Council and advocated an opening of the Church to the world and later also for religious freedom and dialogue with atheism. In 1964 the Polish government favored Wojtyła as the new Archbishop of Cracow because he only preached about peace and love; However, Kordek considers this candidate choice to be a mistake. Even a police operation and Kordek's protest can not prevent the erection of a steel cross at the site of the planned new church in Nowa Huta . In the meantime, Pawel is pleased to learn that Hanna's tumor has inexplicably disappeared.

Adam Zielinski, who meanwhile doubts his job because he considers Wojtyła a charismatic person who never utters a word critical of the government, admits Wojtyła to have spied on him. Wojtyła and Maria forgive him. A little later Adam and Maria marry.

To Wojtyla's delight, Jerzy Kluger, a friend believed to be dead from the Nazi occupation, visits him again. At the same time, Wyszyński and Wojtyła are preparing a document in which the Polish bishops forgive Germany and, in turn, ask for forgiveness for mistakes made by Christianity.

While speaking at a secret resistance meeting, Adam is arrested and tortured by those in power. Wojtyła continues to preach against state repression. Meanwhile, Kordek's superiors also recognize the possible consequences if Wojtyła should become the new Primate of Poland .

In the autumn of 1978 Wojtyła was shocked to learn that Pope John Paul I had died after only 33 days in office. In the conclave that followed, a stalemate developed between Cardinals Giovanni Benelli and Giuseppe Siri . Cardinal Franz König suggests Wojtyła as a possible candidate; After Wyszyński had spoken to him, he was finally elected by an overwhelming majority and to the great joy in his Polish homeland and to the great shock of Kordek. At the end of the film, original images show how Karol Wojtyła shows himself to the people for the first time as the newly elected Pope John Paul II.

synchronization

The German version of the film has the following voice actors :

role actor Voice actor
Karol Wojtyla Piotr Adamczyk Peter Flechtner
Adam Zielinski Ken Duken Ken Duken
Hans Frank Matt Craven Klaus-Dieter Klebsch
Jan Tyranowski Piotr Rózanski Eckart Dux
Tomasz Zaleski Raoul Bova Stephan Schwartz
Stefan Wyszyński Lech Mackiewicz Norbert Gescher

continuation

The script was written during the Pope's lifetime - even filming began in early 2005 when John Paul II was still alive. Immediately after the Pope's death, director Giacomo Battiato commissioned a sequel. The film with the title Karol - Pope und Mensch (Italian: Karol, un Papa rimasto uomo ) premiered in March 2006 in the Vatican and deals exclusively with the years of his pontificate .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Karol - A man who became Pope in the German synchronkartei.de, accessed on May 9, 2020.