Six films that show the cinematic appeal of Pope Francis

Seeing last year the successful thriller about the Vatican Conclave, by Edward Berger, I found it hard not to think about Pope Francis. The film is fictional, based on Robert Harris’ 2016 novel, published when Francis’ papacy was three years old. But a key character in the film is a Mexican archbishop who works in Kabul, a reformer who asks the Church to focus on the marginalized and historically excluded by the institution. Much separated the c…

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Six films that show the cinematic appeal of Pope Francis

He may be the unlikeliest of movie stars, but Francis fascinated dramatists and documentarians alike. Here are some of the finest works highlighting his appeal.

There was a very film-loving Pope, John Paul II, who was even in a theater company in Nazi-occupied Poland and wrote three works (with subsequent adaptation to films). And there has been a Pope loved by film and television, Francis, who knew how to spread his message through screens. Well in fiction, or in documentaries, the Argentine Jorge Mario Bergoglio has starred in the following productions:

The German star director, together with the late Pope, filmed the documentary "Franziskus - a man of his word". Film stars such as Martin Scorsese also bow down.

These films and series deal with the head of the Catholic Church and wonder what it really means to be Pope.