Папесса Иоанна

Папесса Иоанна (1972)

Pope Joan

Легендарная история Иоанны фон Ингельхайм, которая в IX столетии в обличье мужчины дошла в религиозном служении до высших чинов римской курии, и в конце концов под именем Иоанн VIII обманом взошла на папский престол..

Дата выхода
1972-08-16
TMDB
6.1 / 10 (8)
Длительность
1 ч 50 мин
Жанры
драма, история
Режиссёр
Майкл Андерсон

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Pope Joan is a 1972 British historical drama film based on the story of Pope Joan. Even though modern consensus generally considers Pope Joan to be legendary, in the film her existence is treated as fact.

Background

Roger Greenspun summed up the legend in The New York Times:In some medieval histories of the Roman Catholic Church there was a gap between the pontificates of Leo IV (847‐ 855) and his successor, Benedict III. Possibly to explain this gap, a legend grew up concerning a woman, Joan, born near Mainz, educated in Athens, who went to Rome disguised as a monk and so impressed Leo with her wit and learning that, thinking her a man, he appointed her his…

Although the legend has been discounted by church historians for centuries, it has been the source of several fictional accounts—none, I suspect, weirder than Michael Anderson's Pope Joan, which opened yesterday.

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