History Film / Drama - Germany / Italy / Spain. 2009
Rated: PG-12 - 148 mins - Rental: Constantin
Start: 22/10/2009
Legend has it that in the 9th have been taken over centuries the highest office in the church by a man dressed as a woman. Whether that is true, is still controversial. Neither the time nor the event itself is agreement. While the producers of the film Pope Joan as a true story To apply church historians refute their veracity and rate the alleged Pope Joan as a fictional character. Should be about a woman led the whole Catholic Church by the nose?
controversial, the subject, so rocky and the way the book was to film. First, should not Sönke Wortmann (Das Wunder von Bern, Germany. A summer fairytale) staging the bestseller Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross, but Oscar-winner Volker Schlondorff (The Tin Drum, Ulzhan). But when he criticized an article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung Cinema-TV hybrid products, he was by the production company Constantin unceremoniously shown the door. Also favored by Schlöndorff Actress Franka Potente should not rise more in the habit of Joanna from now. The role of Pope was instead filled by Johanna Wokalek (North Face, The Baader Meinhof Complex).
So much for the trappings of the film that triggered all kinds of vortex and the success of the film is likely to be beneficial. But what is it exactly? Sönke Wortmann's historical epic begins in the freezing winter of 814th In poor conditions the girl Johanna was born the third child. The love of knowledge seems to become her in the cradle to be. She learns quickly and eagerly, even though her father, the village priest (Iain Glen), she denied any education and only his two sons, Matthew (Sandro Lohmann) and John (Jan-Hendrik Kiefer informed). When her brother Matthew Johanna persuaded her secretly teach reading, writing and Latin, this is the beginning of a long odyssey of a life by repeatedly and have to hide their true identity. Women were not for the school, but to bear children and is responsible for the budget. Only men were allowed to benefit from education.
But Joan refuses to be: against the strict father, against the rules of the church, for their convictions and their faith. She senses that her destiny is different, that God has it a different way. But the price is high. During the long meet them again and again people who acknowledge their intelligence and mental sharpness, and their help. They make it to the cathedral school, where they met Count Gerold, a nobleman at the court of the bishop (David Wenham), and love to learn. When the war breaks out, it appears under the name of Brother John was a man dressed as the Benedictine monastery of Fulda. For several years she lived as a respected healer and medicine man. threatened when her true identity to be revealed, she flees to Rome. There she again meets Count Gerold, noting that one can not deny it longer: their love.
On and Johanna rises on the side of the pope in the church hierarchy, always greater the risk of discovery and increasingly they feel that they must decide: Will she give her heart God or a man? When Pope Sergius (John Goodman) dies, Johanna is elected as his successor. They quickly, the people on their side, have for the never before done a church leader so much. But Joan has also envy and enemies that you will one day become fatal.
Whether true or fictitious, one thing is certain: Pope Joan is anything but a boring history ham. What is shown here, the magnificent triumph of a woman in a patriarchal society, Johanna's emancipation to the Church but also against a man she loves. A fight in which they 148 minutes brilliantly mastered and worth every minute without lengths.
CAST & CREW
directed by Sönke Wortmann
writer Donna Woolfolk Cross, Heinrich Hadding, Sönke Wortmann
Camera: Tom ferryman
Editor: Hans Funck
Music: Marcel Barsotti
protagonist: Johanna Wokalek, Anatole Taubman, John Goodman, Jördis Triebel, David Wenham
Homepage: http://www.die-paepstin.de
Source: cinema-zeit.de
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