KAROL, A Man Who Became Pope and The Pope, The Man. Two Complete Mini-Series (6 hrs 25 minutes))

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Part One – KAROL: A MAN WHO BECAME POPE : Eighteen year old Sarol Wojtylas is at the threshold of life as an actor, writer and poet, when he finds his world shattered with the Nazi invasion of Poland in September 1939. Part One follows him from the exodus from Cracow to the underground theatre he creates to resist the invaders, to his decision to become a priest amidst the occupation, risking his life, much to the dismay of the woman he might have loved. Part 11: KAROL: THE POPE THE MAN : When Communism engulfs Poland, a pole in charge of Religious Affairs does everything to bring Karol Down. Karol faces the totaliarian authorities with a courage that awakens Poland, shakes the world and ultimately leads him to Rome and the Papacy.

Review

Karol, A Man Who Became Pope isn t the first TV movie on the life of Karol Wojtyla, the future Pope John Paul II, but among the crop of 2005 Pope TV movies released in the wake of the Holy Father s death, it was the first, if not the best, and the only one to be seen and praised both by Benedict XVI and John Paul II himself. Even before production began, the Holy Father met with Polish actor Piotr Adamczyk, who plays him in the film, jokingly telling him, You are crazy to make a film about me. After the completed film was screened privately for the Pope, Vatican press spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls described John Paul II as very impressed with the portrayal. Then, following a subsequent Vatican screening the day after what would have been the Pope s 85th birthday, Benedict XVI addressed a word of admiration to the director and star, offering some moral reflections on the film s portrayals of the inhumanity of the Nazi era of Wojtyla s youth –Decent Films : SDG Film appreciation and criticism informed by Christian Faith.ou