Loading...German village Igelheim’s backward priest hopes his sons to succeed him after education in the bishop’s cathedral school, but the elder succumbs to disease and the youngest lacks any intellectual drive. Traveling teacher Aesculapius arranges for the inquisitive daughter Johanna to be enrolled too, against their father’s wishes. Unfit for the boys-only dorm, she gets […]
| Pope Joan (2009) | |
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| Rating: 6.7/10 (6,413 votes) Director: Sönke Wortmann Writer: Donna Woolfolk Cross (novel), Heinrich Hadding (screenplay), Sönke Wortmann (screenplay), Jodi Ann Johnson Stars: Johanna Wokalek, David Wenham, John Goodman, Iain Glen Runtime: 149 min Rated: N/A Genre: Drama, Romance Released: 22 Oct 2009 |
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| Plot: A woman of English extraction born in the German city of Ingelheim in the ninth century disguises herself as a man and rises through the Vatican ranks. | |
German village Igelheim’s backward priest hopes his sons to succeed him after education in the bishop’s cathedral school, but the elder succumbs to disease and the youngest lacks any intellectual drive. Traveling teacher Aesculapius arranges for the inquisitive daughter Johanna to be enrolled too, against their father’s wishes. Unfit for the boys-only dorm, she gets to stay with count Gerold, incurring his wife’s due jealousy. She’s to be dismissed, but survives a Viking pillaging slaughter and assumes brother Johannes’s identity to join a monastery, where she becomes the infirmary’s trainee. Fleeing exposure as female, she arrives in Rome. As a protégée of rivals in the viper nest-like papal court, she ends up elected as pope, but carries count Gerold’s baby, guaranteeing exposure.
