Pope Joan

Pope Joan (2009)

November 6, 2009

Die Päpstin (Germany) La papessa (Italy) La papisa (Spain) Runtime: 149 min (not one boring minute)   A woman as pope, the highest rank in the catholic church? For 1200 years the legend of Joan’s existence hasn’t died. In a world were Christianity was reducing a woman’s role to homemaker and mother a brave woman [...]

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Pope Joan – More News

August 3, 2009

  Pope Joan, the movie we have mentioned here several times, seems to be having some problems and may be facing limited-theater release in the U.S. If you are in the US and would love to watch the movie go here  for more details and see if you can influence producer and distributors towards a wide [...]

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Pope Joan: the trailer (in german)

July 20, 2009

We are terribly late with this information since the trailer is available since May but we felt we should post it, mainly to satisfy our growing curiosity about the movie. As we said in our previous post, the movie is based on the book Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross. The author is organizing a [...]

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Pope Joan: some stills

July 6, 2009

These aren’t exactly fresh news but it’s always pleasant to admire good stills of interesting upcoming movies, like Pope Joan. A while ago, we talked about this adaptation based on Donna Woolfolk Cross’ bestseller and after seeing these images, we are very excited to watch this movie. What do you think? Images: Aceshowbiz.com

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News: Pope Joan & Robin Hood

August 4, 2008

After a couple of problems and some cast changes, it seems that Pope Joan, the movie adaptation of Donna Woolfolk Cross’ bestseller about a female pope in the middle ages, is finally reaching its filming stage with the first scenes being shot next month in Morocco and Germany. Among its stars, are John Goodman, who [...]

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