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Release Date: 2009

Cast: Oliver Cotton, Tigerlily Hutchinson, David Wenham, Lotte Flack, Johanna Wokalek, John Goodman, Edward Petherbridge, Anatole Taubman, Iain Glen

Categories: Movies, World Cinema, Drama Film

Pope Joan is a German, British, Italian, Spanish medieval epic film produced by Bernd Eichinger, based on American novelist Donna Woolfolk Cross's book of the same name. Directed by Sönke Wortmann, it stars Johanna Wokalek as Pope Joan, David Wenham as Gerold, her lover, and John Goodman as Pope Sergius II. Its world premiere occurred in Berlin on 19 October 2009, going on general release in Germany on 22 October 2009. In the year 814, shortly after the death of Charlemagne, a woman called Joan is born in Ingelheim am Rhein. She is the daughter of a village priest (Iain Glen) who had... MORE

Pope Joan is a German, British, Italian, Spanish medieval epic film produced by Bernd Eichinger, based on American novelist Donna Woolfolk Cross's book of the same name. Directed by Sönke Wortmann, it stars Johanna Wokalek as Pope Joan, David Wenham as Gerold, her lover, and John Goodman as Pope Sergius II. Its world premiere occurred in Berlin on 19 October 2009, going on general release in Germany on 22 October 2009. In the year 814, shortly after the death of Charlemagne, a woman called Joan is born in Ingelheim am Rhein. She is the daughter of a village priest (Iain Glen) who had hoped for a son and is disappointed at the birth of a girl. He also rules his wife (Jördis Triebel) and family with a rod of iron, though his Saxon wife still secretly worships the pagan god Wotan. Even so, Joan grows up to be an articulate girl keen on learning and persuades her older brother Matthias to teach her to read. She then intensively studies the Bible. After Matthias' sudden death, their father wants to send his second son John to the cathedral school in Dorstadt, but when the teacher Aesculapius (Edward Petherbridge) visits them in Ingelheim, Joan proves to be far more capable of dealing LESS