The young Karol Wojtyla in the film “Karol a man who became pope”
The anniversary of the twenty years since the death of Karol Wojtyla, which took place on April 2, 2005, is an opportunity to remember his figure as a man, Pontiff and Santo through films and television programs broadcast today 1 April and tomorrow 2 April.
Tonight on channel 34 in the early evening Karol a man who became pope, A television miniseries on the life of Pope John Paul II of Italian-Polacca co-production made precisely the year of the pontiff’s disappearance. Directed by Giacomo Battiato, with Pioitr Adamczyk in the role of the protagonist, part of 1939, when the young university student Karol Wojtyła, enthusiast of theater, is a witness of the ferocious anti -Slava and anti -Semitic repression implemented by the Governor General of Poland employed, the General of the SS Hans Frank. Contrary to following his friends in the clandestine armed struggle, Karol undertakes through the theater to defend the culture and ethical values to which he believes. His example is Don Tomasz Zaleski (in reality Maximilian Kolbe), childhood friend and now courageous man of the church, who will end executed by the Nazis together with a repentant soldier. The second part of the Minsierie, entitled Karol, a pope who remained a man, which reconstructs its long pontificate, airs on Network 4 today and tomorrow at 16, 40.
On Rai 1 on April 2nd the TV movie Don’t be afraid, – A friendship with Pope Wojtyla: In 1981, a few months after the attack that wired him seriously, Pope Wojtyla visited the refuge of the Zani family on the Adamello together with the President of the Republic Sandro Pertini. From that meeting a deep friendship was born between Lino Zani, mountain guide, and the pontiff. With Giorgio Pasotti and Claudfia Pandolfi.
Available on Rai Play, the film John Paul II, in which Pope has the face of John Voigt.
Wednesday 2 April at 4.30 pm on Tv2000 the documentary John Paul II – A story together.
Rai Cultura offers a double appointment on Wednesday April 2 on Rai History. It starts at 8.45, and in reply at 2.15 pm, with Past and presentAnd. On October 16, 1978, for the first time in 455 years, a foreign pontiff is called to lead the church of Rome: the archbishop of Krakow, Karol Wojtyla, who will take the name of John Paul II. Born on May 18, 1920, Wojtyla will be one of the longest -running and charismatic popes in history. Paolo Mieli talks about it with Professor Alberto Melloni. In an international picture strongly conditioned by the ideological clash between the liberal West and the communist block, the election to the throne of a Pope that comes from overseas, grown in Catholic Poland, represents the start of a crucial historical phase, which will culminate with the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and pontificate dynamic dramatically marked by the attack on May 13, 1981, to which he escapes miraculously. He was proclaimed Saint on April 27, 2014.
At 20.00, the images of 14 November 2002 are proposed, when for the first time a pontiff spoke in the Montecitorio classroom.
