Pope Joan (1972 film), the Glossary
Pope Joan is a 1972 British historical drama film based on the story of Pope Joan.[1]
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50 relations: André Morell, Benedictines, Bill Lenny, Billy Williams (cinematographer), Cardinal (Catholic Church), Catholic Church, Charlemagne, Columbia Pictures, Derek Farr, Domenico Bartolucci, Evangelicalism, Flashback (narrative), Franco Nero, George Peppard, Historical drama, Hour of the Wolf, Ingmar Bergman, Jeremy Kemp, John Briley, John Shrapnel, Lateran Palace, Lesley-Anne Down, Lists of historical films, Liv Ullmann, Lothair I, Louis II of Italy, Louis the Pious, Margareta Pogonat, Martin Benson (actor), Maurice Jarre, Maximilian Schell, Michael Anderson (director), Olivia de Havilland, Patrick Magee (actor), Persona (1966 film), Pope Benedict III, Pope Joan, Pope Joan (2009 film), Pope Leo IV, Reincarnation, Richard Bebb, Richard Pearson (actor), Roger Greenspun, Sistine Chapel Choir, Terrence Hardiman, The Guardian, The New York Times, Time Out (magazine), Trevor Howard, Warner Bros..
- Films about fictional popes
- Films based on European myths and legends
- Films directed by Michael Anderson
- Films set in 9th-century Holy Roman Empire
- Films set in Vatican City
- Films set in the Viking Age
- Films with screenplays by John Briley
- Pope Joan
André Morell
Cecil André Mesritz (20 August 1909 – 28 November 1978), known professionally as André Morell, was an English actor.
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Benedictines
The Benedictines, officially the Order of Saint Benedict (Ordo Sancti Benedicti, abbreviated as OSB), are a mainly contemplative monastic order of the Catholic Church for men and for women who follow the Rule of Saint Benedict.
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Bill Lenny
Bill Lenny (5 January 1924 – 7 January 2002) was a British film editor.
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Billy Williams (cinematographer)
Billy Williams OBE, BSC (born 3 June 1929, Walthamstow, London) is a British cinematographer.
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Cardinal (Catholic Church)
A cardinal (Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae cardinalis) is a senior member of the clergy of the Catholic Church.
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Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
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Charlemagne
Charlemagne (2 April 748 – 28 January 814) was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and Emperor, of what is now known as the Carolingian Empire, from 800, holding these titles until his death in 814.
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Columbia Pictures
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., commonly known as Columbia Pictures or simply Columbia, is an American film production and distribution company that is a member of the Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, a division of Sony Entertainment's Sony Pictures, which is one of the Big Five studios and a subsidiary of the multinational conglomerate Sony Group Corporation.
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Derek Farr
Derrick Capel Farr (7 February 191221 March 1986) was an English actor who appeared regularly in British films and television from 1938 until his death in 1986.
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Domenico Bartolucci
Domenico Bartolucci (7 May 1917 – 11 November 2013) was an Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church.
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Evangelicalism
Evangelicalism, also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide interdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity that emphasizes the centrality of sharing the "good news" of Christianity, being "born again" in which an individual experiences personal conversion, as authoritatively guided by the Bible, God's revelation to humanity.
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Flashback (narrative)
A flashback (sometimes called an analepsis) is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point in the story.
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Franco Nero
Francesco Clemente Giuseppe Sparanero (born 23 November 1941), known professionally as Franco Nero, is an Italian actor, producer, and director.
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George Peppard
George Peppard (October 1, 1928 – May 8, 1994) was an American actor.
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Historical drama
A historical drama (also period drama, period piece or just period) is a dramatic work set in a past time period, usually used in the context of film and television, which presents historical events and characters with varying degrees of fictional elements such as creative dialogue or fictional scenes which aim to compress separate events or illustrate a broader factual narrative.
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Hour of the Wolf
Hour of the Wolf (lit) is a 1968 Swedish psychological horror film directed by Ingmar Bergman and starring Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann.
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Ingmar Bergman
Ernst Ingmar Bergman (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was a Swedish film and theatre director and screenwriter.
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Jeremy Kemp
Edmund Jeremy James Walker (3 February 1935 – 19 July 2019), known professionally as Jeremy Kemp, was an English actor.
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John Briley
Richard John Briley (June 25, 1925 – December 14, 2019) was an American writer best known for screenplays of biographical films.
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John Shrapnel
John Morley Shrapnel (27 April 1942 – 14 February 2020) was an English actor.
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Lateran Palace
The Lateran Palace (Palatium Lateranense; Palazzo del Laterano), formally the Apostolic Palace of the Lateran (Palatium Apostolicum Lateranense), is an ancient palace of the Roman Empire and later the main papal residence in southeast Rome.
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Lesley-Anne Down
Lesley-Anne Down (born 17 March 1954) is a British actress, singer and former model.
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Lists of historical films
This is an index of lists of historical films.
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Liv Ullmann
Liv Johanne Ullmann (born 16 December 1938) is a Norwegian actress.
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Lothair I
Lothair I (Dutch and Medieval Latin: Lotharius; German: Lothar; French: Lothaire; Italian: Lotario; 795 – 29 September 855) was a 9th-century Carolingian emperor (817–855, with his father until 840) and king of Italy (818–855) and Middle Francia (843–855).
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Louis II of Italy
Louis II (825 – 12 August 875), sometimes called the Younger, was the king of Italy and emperor of the Carolingian Empire from 844, co-ruling with his father Lothair I until 855, after which he ruled alone.
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Louis the Pious
Louis the Pious (Ludwig der Fromme; Louis le Pieux; 16 April 778 – 20 June 840), also called the Fair and the Debonaire, was King of the Franks and co-emperor with his father, Charlemagne, from 813.
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Margareta Pogonat
Margareta-Caliopi Pogonat (6 March 1933 – 11 May 2014) was a Romanian theatre and film actress.
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Martin Benson (actor)
Martin Benjamin Benson (10 August 1918 – 28 February 2010) was a British character actor who appeared in films, theatre and television.
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Maurice Jarre
Maurice-Alexis Jarre (13 September 1924 – 28 March 2009) was a French composer and conductor.
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Maximilian Schell
Maximilian Schell (8 December 1930 – 1 February 2014) was a Swiss actor.
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Michael Anderson (director)
Michael Joseph Anderson (30 January 1920 – 25 April 2018) was an English film and television director.
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Olivia de Havilland
Dame Olivia Mary de Havilland (July 1, 1916July 26, 2020) was a British and American actress.
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Patrick Magee (actor)
Patrick George Magee (né McGee, 31 March 1922 – 14 August 1982) was a Northern Irish actor.
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Persona (1966 film)
Persona is a 1966 Swedish avant-garde psychological drama film written, directed, and produced by Ingmar Bergman and starring Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullmann.
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Pope Benedict III
Pope Benedict III (Benedictus III; died 17 April 858) was the bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States from 29 September 855 to his death.
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Pope Joan
Pope Joan (Ioannes Anglicus, 855–857) was, according to legend, a woman who reigned as pope for two years during the Middle Ages.
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Pope Joan (2009 film)
Pope Joan (Die Päpstin) is 2009 epic historical drama film produced by Bernd Eichinger, based on American novelist Donna Woolfolk Cross' novel of the same name about the legendary Pope Joan. Pope Joan (1972 film) and Pope Joan (2009 film) are films about fictional popes, films based on European myths and legends, films set in 9th-century Holy Roman Empire, films set in Vatican City, films set in the Viking Age, pope Joan and Secret histories.
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Pope Leo IV
Pope Leo IV (died 17 July 855) was the bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States from 10 April 847 to his death.
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Reincarnation
Reincarnation, also known as rebirth or transmigration, is the philosophical or religious concept that the non-physical essence of a living being begins a new life in a different physical form or body after biological death.
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Richard Bebb
Richard Bebb (12 January 1927 – 12 April 2006) was an English actor of stage, screen and radio.
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Richard Pearson (actor)
Richard de Pearsall Pearson (1 August 1918 – 2 August 2011) was an English character actor who appeared in numerous film, television and stage productions over a period of 65 years.
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Roger Greenspun
Roger Greenspun (December 16, 1929 – June 18, 2017) was an American journalist and film critic, best known for his work with The New York Times in which he reviewed near 400 films, particularly in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and for Penthouse for which he was the film critic throughout much of the late 1970s and 1980s.
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Sistine Chapel Choir
The Sistine Chapel Choir, as it is generally called in English, or officially the Coro della Cappella Musicale Pontificia Sistina in Italian, is the Pope's personal choir.
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Terrence Hardiman
Terrence Edward Hardiman (6 April 1937 – 18 April 2023) was an English actor.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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Time Out (magazine)
Time Out is a global magazine published by Time Out Group.
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Trevor Howard
Trevor Wallace Howard-Smith (29 September 1913 – 7 January 1988) was an English stage, film, and television actor.
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Warner Bros.
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See also
Films about fictional popes
- Angels & Demons (film)
- Conclave (film)
- Pope Joan (1972 film)
- Pope Joan (2009 film)
- Saving Grace (1986 film)
- The New Pope
- The Pope Must Die
- The Shoes of the Fisherman (film)
- The Young Pope
- We Have a Pope (film)
Films based on European myths and legends
- A Viking Saga
- An Ancient Tale: When the Sun Was a God
- Beowulf & Grendel
- Beowulf (1999 film)
- Fausto 5.0
- Furious (2017 film)
- Jack and the Beanstalk: The Real Story
- Krampus (film)
- Krampus Unleashed
- Krampus: The Devil Returns
- Krampus: The Reckoning
- Land of Legends
- Mamay (film)
- Midsommar
- Minotaur (film)
- Outlaw: The Saga of Gisli
- Penelope (2006 film)
- Pope Joan (1972 film)
- Pope Joan (2009 film)
- Prince of Jutland
- St. Patrick: The Irish Legend
- Tarzan's Magic Fountain
- The 13th Warrior
- The Hills Have Eyes (1977 film)
- The Lair of the White Worm (film)
- The Last Legion
- The Legend of the Christmas Witch
- The Northman
- The Scythian
- The StoryTeller (TV series)
- The Tartars
- The Viking Sagas
- The Vikings (film)
- The Whirlpool (2022 film)
- The White Viking
- Viking (2016 film)
- When the Raven Flies
Films directed by Michael Anderson
- 1984 (1956 film)
- All the Fine Young Cannibals
- Around the World in 80 Days (1956 film)
- Chase a Crooked Shadow
- Conduct Unbecoming (1975 film)
- Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze
- Dominique (1979 film)
- Flight from Ashiya
- Hell Is Sold Out
- Logan's Run (film)
- Millennium (film)
- Murder by Phone
- Night Was Our Friend
- Operation Crossbow (film)
- Orca (1977 film)
- Pope Joan (1972 film)
- Private Angelo (film)
- Second Time Lucky
- Separate Vacations
- Shake Hands with the Devil (1959 film)
- Summer of the Monkeys (film)
- Sword of Gideon
- The Dam Busters (film)
- The House of the Arrow (1953 film)
- The Jeweller's Shop (film)
- The Martian Chronicles (miniseries)
- The Naked Edge
- The Quiller Memorandum
- The Sea Wolf (1993 film)
- The Shoes of the Fisherman (film)
- The Wreck of the Mary Deare (film)
- Waterfront (1950 film)
- Wild and Wonderful
- Will Any Gentleman...?
- Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
Films set in 9th-century Holy Roman Empire
- Charlemagne, le prince à cheval
- Pope Joan (1972 film)
- Pope Joan (2009 film)
Films set in Vatican City
- 2012 (film)
- Amen.
- Angels & Demons (film)
- Brother Sun, Sister Moon
- Cabrini (film)
- Conclave (film)
- Deliver Us (film)
- End of Days (film)
- EuroTrip
- Fetih 1453
- Hudson Hawk
- Il commissario Lo Gatto
- In the Name of the Pope King
- In the Pope's Eye
- James Tont operazione D.U.E.
- Karol: A Man Who Became Pope
- Karol: The Pope, The Man
- Mission: Impossible III
- Monsignor (film)
- Mother Teresa of Calcutta (film)
- Olive, the Other Reindeer
- Operation St. Peter's
- Pope Joan (1972 film)
- Pope Joan (2009 film)
- Pope John Paul II (miniseries)
- Saving Grace (1986 film)
- Spectre (2015 film)
- The Abdication
- The Agony and the Ecstasy (film)
- The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair
- The Cardinal
- The Conclave
- The Godfather Part III
- The Pope Must Die
- The Rite (2011 film)
- The Scarlet and the Black
- The Shoes of the Fisherman (film)
- The Two Popes
- The Vatican Tapes
- We Have a Pope (film)
- What a Beautiful Day (film)
Films set in the Viking Age
- A Viking Saga
- Alfred the Great (film)
- An Ancient Tale: When the Sun Was a God
- Attack of the Normans
- Beauty and the Beast (2005 film)
- Charlemagne, le prince à cheval
- Draug (film)
- Erik the Conqueror
- Erik the Viking
- Här kommer bärsärkarna
- Hagbard and Signe
- Hammer of the Gods (2009 film)
- Hammer of the Gods (2013 film)
- How to Train Your Dragon
- How to Train Your Dragon (2025 film)
- In the Shadow of the Raven
- Knives of the Avenger
- Northmen: A Viking Saga
- Outlander (film)
- Outlaw: The Saga of Gisli
- Pathfinder (2007 film)
- Pope Joan (1972 film)
- Pope Joan (2009 film)
- Severed Ways
- The 13th Warrior
- The Ceremony of Innocence
- The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die
- The Last Viking (film)
- The Last of the Vikings
- The Long Ships (film)
- The Norseman
- The Northman
- The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent
- The Tartars
- The Thralls
- The Viking (1928 film)
- The Viking Sagas
- The Vikings (film)
- The War Lord
- The White Viking
- Valhalla Rising (film)
- Vengeance of the Vikings
- Vicky and the Treasure of the Gods
- Vicky the Viking (film)
- Viking (2016 film)
- Vikingdom
- When the Raven Flies
Films with screenplays by John Briley
- Children of the Damned
- Christopher Columbus: The Discovery
- Cry Freedom
- Eagle's Wing
- Enigma (1982 film)
- Gandhi (film)
- Hammerhead (film)
- Invasion Quartet
- Marie (1985 film)
- Pope Joan (1972 film)
- Postman's Knock (film)
- Tai-Pan (film)
- That Lucky Touch
- The Medusa Touch (film)
Pope Joan
- Jean de Mailly
- Legends surrounding the papacy
- Pope Joan
- Pope Joan (1972 film)
- Pope Joan (2009 film)
- Pope Joan (novel)
- The Female Prelate
- The High Priestess
- Top Girls