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This documentary tells the story of Edith Stein (1891-1942), a German philosopher of Jewish decent whom Pope John Paul II canonized in 1998. Stein converted to Catholicism in 1922 and lived as nun in the Carmelite Convent of Echt, South Holland. During World War II she was deported and died in Auschwitz. Director Frederieke Jochems worked for 9 years to bring Edith Stein's story to life and to illuminate the controversy surrounding the canonization. Featuring Holocaust survivor Max Hamburger, Carmelite nun Maria Amate Neyer, Stein’s American niece Susanne Batzdorff, feminist theologian Thalia Gur-Klein, American...

Director : Frederieke Jochems

Production Year : 2007

Duration : 50

Language : Dutch

Pope John Paul II

Filmed in Rome and Austria, this TV biopic tells the story of Pope John Paul II, Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from 16.10.1978 until his death in 2005. The story begins in 1938, when teen-aged Karol Wojtyla, a would-be actor, decides instead to enter the priesthood. Played from age 26 onward by actor Albert Finney, Wojtyla spends WWII years in the Polish anti-Nazi movement. He continues battling for his beliefs with the Communist-ruled Polish government in the postwar years. In 1978, Wojtyla is elected to succeed Pope John Paul I, thereby becoming the first non-Italian pope in 4 centuries. Relations between...

Director : Herbert Wise

Production Year : 1984

Duration : 150

Language : English