Karol Wojtyła - Secrets of a Pope

Movie
Original title	Karol Wojtyła: Secrets of a Pope
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	2006
length	60 minutes
Age rating	FSK o.A.
Rod
Director	Gero from Boehm
script	Gero from Boehm
production	Christine von Boehm
music	Dominik Avenwedde Mahan Mobashery
camera	Tibor Szalma
cut	Andreas Tiletzek
occupation
Michael Mendl : Pope John Paul II. Devid Striesow : The young Karol Wojtyła Mario Adorf : Peppino Mancuso Cosma Shiva Hagen : Halina Krolikiewski Udo Kroschwald : Stanisław Dziwisz Otto Mellies : Yuri Vladimirovich Andropow Dan van Husen : Karol's father Uwe Zersch : Doctor Thorsten Grasshoff : Doctor Thomas Meinhardt : William Casey Mikail Tufan : Mehmet Ali Ağca Archival material Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev Wojciech Jaruzelski Henry Kissinger Helmut Kohl Lech Wałęsa

Karol Wojtyła: Secrets of a Pope is a docu-drama about Pope John Paul II .

action

One of the gardeners of the Vatican , Peppino Mancuso (he is fictional, by the way), meets John Paul II in the garden, who tells him the story of his life and gives him new insights.

background

With the help of game scenes in which Michael Mendl and Devid Striesow slip into the role of the Pope, who died in 2005 , and original recordings, director Gero von Boehm provides a rough outline of the multifaceted life of John Paul II.

The shooting took place both in Rome and in Görlitz , Saxony .

Web links

• Karol Wojtyla - Secrets of a pope in the Internet Movie Database (English)