Pelicula karol wojtyla biography
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Witness to Hope: The Life of Karol Wojtyla, Pope John Paul II (2002)
Based on George Weigel’s definitive 1000-plus page biography, Judith Dwan Hallet’s richly textured, feature-length treatment stands alone in its insight into John Paul II’s inner life, his thought and his spirituality. Speaking of other biographers, the Holy Father once commented, “They try to understand me from outside. But I can only be understood from inside.” No biographer understands the Pope from within like Weigel.
Most documentaries mention that Wojtyla’s mentor Jan Tyranowski introduced him to St. John of the Cross. Only Witness to Hope offers any glimpse into what St. John’s Carmelite mysticism was all about or what its significance for Wojtyla might have been.
Most mention Wojtyla’s involvement in his youth in an underground cultural resistance movement during the Nazi occupation of Poland. Witness to Hope goes further, relating Wojtyl
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Pope John Paul II (film)
1984 American TV series or program
Pope John Paul II is a 1984 American biopicdramatelevision film based on the life of Karol Wojtyła, from his early days as an activist in Poland to his installation as Pope John Paul II. Written by Christopher Knopf and directed by Herbert Wise, the film stars Albert Finney, Caroline Bliss, Brian Cox, and John Forgeham.[1][2] The film marks both Albert Finney's American television debut[3][4] and the first script Finney had ever turned down upon initial reading.[5][6]
Synopsis
[edit]This film's timeline begins with the death of Pope John Paul I on September 28, 1978, and then flashes back to Karol Wojtyła as a young man growing up decades earlier in Wadowice, Poland. The storyline then returns to pre-October 16 dates in 1978 and flashes back to Wojtyła's early life, family relationships, his political involvements fighting against Nazism during World Wa
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Synopsis
Part One
Following the premature death of his mother, Karol Wojtyla is brought up bygd his father in the Polish city of Krakow during the first half of the 20 th century. An outstanding lärjunge with a magnetic personality, he dreams of becoming an actor.
When his homeland is invaded by the Nazis in 1939, he and his friends secretly oppose the systematic persecution of their Polish culture. But, with the death of his father and the lacerating solitude which accompanies this loss, Karol’s personal “resistance” takes on a new form and he decides to follow a priestly vocation. At the end of the war, Poland falls into the grip of Soviet totalitarianism.
The newly ordained Karol is constantly surrounded bygd young people whom he teaches to safeguard and defend human dignity. He could be considered a serious threat to the regime, but the Communist authorities merely see him as an innocuous intellectua