Pope John Paul II
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Jon Voight
Cary Elwes
James Cromwell
Christopher Lee
Ben Gazzara
Daniele Pecci
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
The life and times of the late Pope John Paul II, also known as Karol Wojtyla. Miniseries will chronicle his youth under Nazi-occupied Poland, his time as a young priest in a country controlled by the Soviet Union, his rise in the Catholic Church to becoming the first Polish pope in 1978 as his legacy of papal work until the time of his death.
Cast
Jon Voight
Cary Elwes
James Cromwell
Christopher Lee
Ben Gazzara
Daniele Pecci
Vittoria Belvedere
Guiliano Gemma
Ettore Bassi
Franco Nero
Charles Dance
Wenanty Nosul
Stefano Molinari
Valeria Cavalli
Bartosz Glougowski
Chiara Conti
Bianca Nappi
Giulietta Revel
Giovanna Nodari
Fabrizio Bucci
Alessandro Demcenko
Beata Ben Ammar
Luca Capuano
Andy Luotto
Luca Di Prospero
Marcin Kuzminski
Allan Caister Pearce
Robert Gonera
Maurizio Di Carmine
Maciej Marczewski
Michael Fitzpatrick
Krzysztof Pieczy+ski
Stefano Venturi
Christopher Good
Guido Roncalli
Krzysztof Janczar
Giampiero Rotoli
Juliusz Chrzastowski
Giorgia Porchetti
Carlo Sabatini
Michele Alhaique
Marcin Sibiga
Jean Paul Buana
Jacek Lenartowicz
Marcus J Cotterel
Giacomo Piperno
Fabrizio Rogano
Mikolaj Grabowski
Wlodzimierz Chrenkoff
Paolo Paoloni
Dimitri Tamarov
Vanni Corbellini
Sergio Nicolai
Francis Pardeilhan
Luis Molteni
Carla Verolo
Roberto Nobile
Tadeusz Bradecki
Andrzej Blumenfeld
Luca Lombardi
Robert Mazurkiewicz
Edward Zentara
Pedro Sarubbi
Zaneta Babik
Nicola Pistola
Lidia Duda
Ronald Dudley Grant
Adrian Ochalik
Andrzej ^d:zarnecki
Alessandro Zamattio
Harald Posch
Maripia Cassarino
Slawomir Sosnierz
Alicja Bienicewicz
Ewa Zytkiewicz
Cyrus Elias
Maria Bosco
Dominik Nowak
Giulio Base
Massimo Barcherini
Michele Gammino
Eddie Roberts
Slawomir Zapala
Fabrizio Jovine
Elisabetta Tucci
Andrzej Szopa
Claudio Spadaro
Bruce Mcguire
Ennio Tozzi
Agneska Popkiewicz
Wojciech Leonowicz
Krzys Kremienniecki
Izabela Kuna
Klara Bielawka
Ryszard Radwanski
Valentina Capone
Maciej Kepka
Zygmunt Jozefczak
Marc Fiorini
Pierpaolo Lovino
Emanuela Paola Carboni
David Zed
Marta Krol
Raffaele Latagliata
Gabriella Barbuti
Romuald Andrzej Klos
Daniele Petruccioli
Andrea Bosca
Michal Dworczyk
Wojtek Kowman
Agnieszka Mandat
Maciej Malysa
Pawel Kasprzycki
Crew
Barbara Ancarani
Teresa Anglik
Maurizio Argentieri
Francesco Arianch
Marzena Banach
Fabiola Banzi
Pierluigi Basile
Salvatore Basile
Tarak Ben Ammar
Ettore Bernabei
Luca Bernabei
Matilde Bernabei
Juergen Biefang
Enrica Biscossi
George J Bloom
Vladislav Boiadjiev
Paolo Bovi
Robert Brzezinski
Manuela Cacciamani
Domenico Caponecchi
Angela Capuano
Inti Carboni
Massimo Chessari
Lorenzo Ciccinato
Joanna Ciesla
Gianfranco Coduti
Francesco Contaldo
Fabrizio Coppo
Antonio Crucitti
D Marcial Cuquerella
Janusz B Czech
Marco D'angeli
Stephen J. Davis
Marco De Leonibus
Giuseppe De Luca
Luca De Luca
Paolo Del Bravo
Giancarlo Del Brocco
Maurizio Depol
Marco Dionisi
Lorenzo Dominici
Cristiano Donzelli
Mariusz Drazyk
Julia Duff
Andrzej Dutkiewicz
Sergio Ercolessi
Roberta Federico
Katarzyna Filimoniuk
Katarzyna Filimoniuk
Janusz Filipek
Federico Foti
Gerardo Frisina
Marco Frisina
Marco Frisina
Jarek Frontczak
Armando Fumagalli
Franco Fabio Galliano
Jeff Goodwin
Chris Grabowski
Andrea Grazzani
Ettore Guerrieri
Max Gusberti
John Kent Harrison
Carla Indoni
Katarzyna Janika
Dianne Lynn Jones
Slawomir Jozwik
Tomasz Justyniarski
Danuta Kaminska
Mariusz Komacki
Marta Kownacka
Andrea Lancia
Stefano Lombardo
Molly Lopata
Furio Lorenzetti
Grzegorz Lozowski
Fabrizio Lucci
Fabio Lucheroni
Clementina Luotto
Gene Luotto
Massimo Lupi
Grzegorz Macias
Pawel Majerczak
Pierpaolo Marcelli
Stefano Marinoni
Roberto Meddi
Ryszard Melliwa
Ryszard Melliwa
Giorgia Meniconi
Alberto Michelini
Jan Michelini
Jan Michelini
Father Stanislaw Mieszczak
Antonio Montaperto
Renata Musial
Vincenzo Nardi
Ernesto Natoli
Roy Nicholson
Adam Nowakowski
Alberto Nunzi
Claudio Pacifico
Anselmo Parrinello
Anselmo Parrinello
Barbara Pastrovich
Fabio Patrignani
Roberto Pecci
Luciano Pecoraro
Alessandro Pelliccia
Mauro Pescetelli
Fania Petrocchi
Beata Pisula
Salvatore Placenti
Pawel Ptasznik
Rosario Ranieri
Jaroslaw Rawecki
Massimiliano Rocchetti
Alessandro Rosa
Mara Rossi
Andrzej Rychtarczyk
Emanuele Salvatore
Michele Santoro
Angelo Santucci
Matteo Schiavio
Simona Sciannimanico
Marcin Sibiga
Alessandro Signori
Alessandro Signori
Maria Skapska
Marco Streccioni
Piotr Symela
Piotr Symela
Luciano Teolis
Andrea Testa
Pietro Tiberti
Dave Tinsley
Gianfranco Torinti
Massimiliano Trevis
Corrado Trionfera
Paola Trisoglio
Antonio Trovato
Cardinal Roberto Tucci
Henk Van Eeghen
Cornelia Von Braun
Magdalena Wcislo
Craig Weiss
Janina Wieczorek
Kazimierz Wroblewski
Tracy Young
Josef Zapala
Marck Zawierucha
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Aired in United States December 7, 2005
Project picked up to production for the 2005-2006 season.
John Voight replaced Ian Holm in the role of Pope John Paul. Holm dropped out for "personal reasons."
Casting for Pope John Paul II began in June, 2005 in Los Angeles.
The script was supervised by historians at the Vatican.
CBS Network is in negotiations for licensing. Deal would include CBS taking a part in developing the project.
Scheduled to air in USA on CBS Network December 4, 2005 December 7, 2005.
Scheduled to air in Italy on RAI Uno Network November 20, 2005 and November 21, 2005.
Screened in the Vatican City exclusively for Pope Benedict XVI November 17, 2005.
Exclusive footage has been filmed at St. Peter's Square, the Sistine Chapel and surrounding areas.
Began shooting August 11, 2005 in Krakow, Poland. Scheduld to shoot in Rome, Italy in late 2005.
2 (parts)
Nominated for the 2006 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie (Jon Voight) by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
Aired in United States November 18, 2005
Aired in United States November 20, 2005
Aired in United States November 21, 2005
Aired in United States December 4, 2005
