Vatican against Pope Joan
Died down scandals associated with the screen versions of books by Dan Brown, and the Vatican has found a new excuse. Dissatisfaction with the Italian bishops led drama "Die Papstin".
The film, directed by Wortman, put on a novel by American author Donna Woolfork Cross. It was published in 1996, became a bestseller, but angered the Catholic Church.
The main heroin lives in the 9 century AD. Born into a family of English missionaries, she was interested from childhood to purely masculine occupation - learned to read and write, learned Latin and Greek. As a teenager, Joan was in school, where she studied with his brother, and after his death, wearing a suit, sent to a convent instead.
In the film writers softened feminist tone of the Cross novel, giving a number of male characters encountered Joan, adequate assessment of her mental faculties.
According to legend, Joan came to the throne, but the rules did not last long - she died while giving birth to a child during the festive procession. Then her name was supposedly erased from the archives of the Vatican. Accurate evidence of the existence of Pope Joan does not exist.
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"Die Papstin" is now well proven by the Italian box office. The film has already passed in Germany, and soon it will go in the UK. Will the film in the American box office, is still unknown.
Last week the publication of L'Avvenire, owned by the Italy Bishop Conference, has called Joan "hoax", and the film - winner of "extremely limited point of view." Meanwhile, the Vatican's official newspaper L'Osservatore Romano so far is silent.
The Legend of Pope Joan first appeared in the 13th century and is widely spread in Europe, although some historians believe that it became popular later by anti-Catholic propaganda.
The main role in the film played a German actress Johanna Vokalek. She will replace her compatriot Franka Potente, which was originally approved for the role of Joan. The film was supposed to shoot Volker Schlandorff, but he left work with a scandal due to creative incompatibilities.