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The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968)

Director: Michael Anderson

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From Time Out Film Guide

A dour and thoroughly unconvincing film of Morris West's novel about a Russian bishop who survives twenty years in Siberia to become Pope Zorba, and who undertakes to spend the Church's wealth to stave off nuclear war. At which point you might expect the Vatican to have him quietly bumped off, but there's no such realism here, just weighty performances, rich settings, and David Janssen as a US journalist with domestic troubles.

Author: TCh

Time Out Film Guide


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  • Lidia Wasylyn said...
    Posted on Jan 05 2011 19:25 This film is based on the story of Patriarch Josef Slipyj the Patriarch of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (NOT Russian) who did indeed spend 18 years in slave labour in Siberia becuase of his religious beliefs and was released through the intervention of the Kennedy administration. From there the story turns fiction. The bishop played by Anthony Quinn died in 1984 after serving his flock in the west for several decades. Quinn's representation of this revered Bishop was eloquent and uncannily accurate as far his mannerism and appearance.
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