Pope Joan

German village Igelheim s backward priest hopes his sons to succeed him after education in the bishop s cathedral school, but the elder succumbs to disease and the youngest lacks any intellectual drive. Traveling teacher Aesculapius arranges for the inquisitive daughter Johanna to be enrolled too, against their father s wishes. Unfit for the boys-only dorm, she gets to stay with count Gerold, incurring his wife s due jealousy. She s to be dismissed, but survives a Viking pillaging slaughter and assumes brother Johannes s identity to join a monastery, where she becomes the infirmary s trainee. Fleeing exposure as female, she arrives in Rome. As a protégée of rivals in the viper nest-like papal court, she ends up elected as pope, but carries count Gerold s baby, guaranteeing exposure. Written by KGF Vissers Pope Joan is a 2009 English-language Drama Romance film featuring Johanna Wokalek, David Wenham, John Goodman, Iain Glen, Edward Petherbridge, Anatole Taubman and Mohamed Zerwal. The movie is based on a novel by Donna Woolfolk Cross. Constantin Film was the production house involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Bernd Eichinger, Oliver Berben and Martin Moszkowicz. The movie is directed by S Nke Wortmann. Constantin Film acquired the distribution rights for the movie. Pope Joan was released on 12th August 2010 and takes a screen time of 149 minutes. The Film was successful at box office. Pope Joan was made on a budget of €22 million and it was a hit at box office gross of $28 million. The screenplay for the movie was written by Heinrich Hadding, Jodi Ann Johnson and S nke Wortmann. Cinematography was done by Tom F hrmann and editing by Hans Funck. The music was composed by Marcel Barsotti.
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