Pope Joan

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2009-10-22

Languages:

English, Latin

Countries:

Germany, UK, Italy, Spain

Runtime:

149 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (6361 Reviews)

Director:

Sènke Wortmann

Genres:

Drama Romance

Cast:

Johanna Wokalek David Wenham John Goodman Iain Glen

Writer:

Donna Woolfolk Cross (novel)

Heinrich Hadding (screenplay)

Sènke Wortmann (screenplay)

Jodi Ann Johnson

Fullplot:

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 protègèe of rivals in the viper nest-like papal court, she ends up elected as pope, but carries count Gerold's baby, guaranteeing exposure.

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