Critics have comically dubbed it Zorba the Pope.
The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968)
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Fresh:3
Rotten:3
Average Rating:6.1/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 44 mins
Genre: Religious
Synopsis: Kiril Lakota, a Russian priest, has spent years languishing in a Siberian prison camp for his religious convictions. But he unexpectedly gets a reprieve when the communist government sends him to... Kiril Lakota, a Russian priest, has spent years languishing in a Siberian prison camp for his religious convictions. But he unexpectedly gets a reprieve when the communist government sends him to Rome to help the Vatican prevent a nuclear war. But neither the Soviet hierarchy nor the priest himself forsee that the one-time prisoner will ultimately become the new Pope. [More]
Starring: Anthony Quinn, Leo McKern, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud
Starring: Anthony Quinn, Leo McKern, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Oskar Werner, David Janssen, Vittorio De Sica, Barbara Jefford
Director: Michael Anderson
Director: Michael Anderson
Producer: George Englund
Screenwriter: John Patrick, James Kennaway
Composer: Alex North
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Apr 4, 2006
Reviews for The Shoes of the Fisherman
Settle back and let this old fashioned but entirely enjoyable epic (from Aussie writer Morris West's novel) take you on a journey that is in many ways every bit as relevant today as it was then
All-star cast, headed by Anthony Quinn, Olivier and Gielgud, can't help Anderson's poor transfern of Morris West's bestseller, an international political thriller about a Russian survivor of the gulag who becomes pope; best thing is Alex North's score.
A curious, at times almost prescient anticipation of the reign of John Paul II, filtered partly through the lens of the Silly Sixties.
...it gets so bogged down in subplots and minutiae, it loses its way.
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