Directed by:
Sönke WortmannCinematography:
Tom FährmannComposer:
Marcel BarsottiCast:
Johanna Wokalek, David Wenham, John Goodman, Iain Glen, Edward Petherbridge, Anatole Taubman, Lotte Flack, Jördis Triebel, Oliver Cotton, Nicholas Woodeson (more)Plots(1)
Her existence was a secret. Her name was deleted from the books of history. Yet the life of Joan - who led the Catholic Church under the name of Pope John Anglicus in the 9th century - has become a legend. Joan was born in 814 A.D. She rebels against a predestined and constraining path for her as a woman early in her young life. She is convinced God has planned a different destiny for her. Ultimately she falls in love with the nobleman Gerold (David Wenham). While he goes to war she bethinks her inner voice joins a Benedictine monastery disguised as a man under the name of John. She becomes a physician goes to Rome where she wins the favour of the Holy Father (John Goodman) and thus rises ever higher in the ecclesiastical hierarchy. (Eagle Entertainment)
(more)Cast
Johanna Wokalek
West Germany
Best movies:
The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
North Face (2008)
Die Kirschenkönigin (2004) (series)
David Wenham
Australia
Best movies:
John Goodman
USA
Best movies:
Monsters, Inc. (2001)
The Big Lebowski (1998)
Cars (2006)
Iain Glen
UK
Best movies:
The Hollow Crown (2012) (series)
Song for a Raggy Boy (2003)
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990)
Edward Petherbridge
UK
Best movies:
A Christmas Carol (1999) (TV movie)
An Awfully Big Adventure (1995)
Pope Joan (2009)
Anatole Taubman
Switzerland
Best movies:
L'Enlèvement (2008)
Frau Ella (2013)
Foyle's War (2002) (series)
Lotte Flack
Germany
Best movies:
Stiller Abschied (2013) (TV movie)
Pope Joan (2009)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Jördis Triebel
East Germany
Best movies:
The Silent Revolution (2018)
The Verdict (2016) (TV movie)
25 km/h (2018)
Oliver Cotton
UK
Best movies:
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
Ripper Street (2012) (series)
Sharpe's Battle (1995) (TV movie)
Nicholas Woodeson
UK
Best movies:
Conspiracy (2001) (TV movie)
Ripper Street (2012) (series)
Skyfall (2012)
Suzanne Bertish
UK
Best movies:
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1999) (series)
Agatha Christie: Poirot (1989) (series)
Bent (1997)
Richard van Weyden
West Germany
Best movies:
Pope Joan (2009)
The Photographer of Mauthausen (2018)
Break Up Man (2013)
Branko Tomović
West Germany
Best movies:
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
Fury (2014)
Will (2011)
Lenn Kudrjawizki
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Enemy at the Gates (2001)
Die Kirschenkönigin (2004) (series)
The Counterfeiters (2007)
Ian Gelder
UK
Best movies:
Endeavour (2012) (series)
Ripper Street (2012) (series)
Agatha Christie: Poirot (1989) (series)
Alexander Held
West Germany
Best movies:
Schindler's List (1993)
The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
The Wave (2008)
Sandro Lohmann
Denmark
Best movies:
A Good Boy (2008) (TV movie)
About a Girl (2014)
Pope Joan (2009)
Christian Redl
West Germany
Best movies:
Downfall (2004)
Lea (1996)
Das jüngste Gericht (2008) (TV movie)
Claudia Michelsen
East Germany
Best movies:
Berlin 56 (2016) (series)
Ku'damm 59 (2018) (series)
The Same Sky (2017) (series)
Marc Bischoff
Germany
Best movies:
Enemy at the Gates (2001)
Run Lola Run (1998)
Aimee & Jaguar (1999)