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POPE FRANCIS, A MAN OF HIS WORD

By Wim WENDERS

ROAD MOVIES GMBH - as PROD

Documentary - Completed 2018

Pope Francis: A Man of His Word is a historic nonfiction film intended to be a personal journey with Pope Francis, to present his work and his answers to today’s global questions from his deep concern for the poor, his involvement in environmental issues, social justice, and his call for peace.

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Cannes 2018
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    • Year of production
    • 2018
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • GERMANY, SWITZERLAND, FRANCE, ITALY
    • Languages
    • SPANISH, ITALIAN
    • Duration
    • 92 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Wim WENDERS
    • Producer(s)
    • Wim WENDERS (NEUE ROAD MOVIES GMBH), David ROSIER (DECIA FILMS), Andrea GAMBETTA (SOLARES FONDAZIONE DELLE ARTI), Samanta GANDOLFI BRANCA (Célestes Images), Alessandro LO MONACO (Solares Suisse)
    • Synopsis
    • On 13 March 2013, the Cardinal of Buenos Aires, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, became the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church. He is the first Pope to come from the other side of the Atlantic, the first Jesuit, but also the first to have chosen the name of Francesco, after Saint Francis, one of the most revered Christian saints and reformers.

      This documentary film directed by Wim Wenders is not a biographical film about Pope Francis, but rather a film with him, a film that sets out to represent his remarkable work of reform and his answers to today’s global questions.

      The narrative concept creates a dialogue between the Pope and, literally, the world. Faced by questions from people of all walks of life, Pope Francis responds to farmers and workers, refugees as well as celebrities, children and elderly people, people from shantytowns as well as inmates in prisons. All of these voices and faces reflect a cross-section of humanity that joins in a conversation with Pope Francis.

      While this “symphony of questions” provides the backbone for the film, it also shows the Pope on his many journeys, with remarkable archive material and footage of him talking to the United Nations as well as to the US Senate, of excerpts of his speeches at Ground Zero in New York or the Yad Vashem Holocaust Remembrance Center in Jerusalem. We accompany the Pope on his visits to the Holy Land as well as to Africa, South America or Asia.

      Pope Francis is himself the film's only narrator. Through his replies, he shares his ideas - his vision of the Church, his deep concern for the poor, his involvement in environmental issues and social justice and his call for peace, for areas of conflict as well as between the world religions.
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