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Pope Joan is a Allemand film of genre Drama directed by Sönke Wortmann released in USA on 22 october 2009 with Suzanne Bertish

Pope Joan (2009)

Die Päpstin

Pope Joan
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Pope Joan (German: Die Päpstin) is a German, British, Italian, Spanish medieval epic film produced by Bernd Eichinger, based on American novelist Donna Woolfolk Cross's book of the same name. Directed by Sönke Wortmann, it stars Johanna Wokalek as Pope Joan, David Wenham as Gerold, her lover, and John Goodman as Pope Sergius II. Its world premiere occurred in Berlin on 19 October 2009, going on general release in Germany on 22 October 2009.

Synopsis

Shortly after the death of Charlemagne, a woman called Joan is born in Ingelheim am Rhein. She is the daughter of a village priest (Iain Glen). He also rules his wife (Jördis Triebel) and family with a rod of iron, though his Saxon wife still secretly worships the pagan god Wotan. Even so, Joan grows up to be an articulate girl, who intensively studies the Bible, unbeknownst to her father. After her eldest brother's sudden death, their father wants to send his second son John to the cathedral school in Dorestad, but when the teacher Aesculapius (Edward Petherbridge) visits them in Ingelheim, Joan proves to be far more capable of dealing with the Scriptures than John. Against her father's wishes, Joan is taught by Aesculapius, who introduces her to literary works such as Homer's Odyssey.

Actors

Suzanne Bertish

(Bishop Arnaldo, the narrator)
Johanna Wokalek

(Johanna von Ingelheim)
David Wenham

(Gerold)
John Goodman

(Pope Sergius II.)
Anatole Taubman

(Anastasius)
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