Morte in Vaticano (1982)

User Rating:

4.1/10   

Director:

Marcello Aliprandi

Writers:

Marcello Aliprandi (writer)
Lucio Battistrada (writer)

Release Date:

1982 (Italy)

Genre:

Drama | Thriller

Plot:

An eremit who has had contact to terrorists is planning to kill the pope by poisoning. |

Plot Keywords:

Pope | Hired Killer | Religion | Priest | Moral Dilemma

Cast

Terence Stamp	...	Padre Andreani, poi Papa Giovanni Clemente I
Fabrizio Bentivoglio	...	Padre Bruno Martello
Paula Molina	...	Nina
Gabriele Ferzetti	...	Cardinale Ixaguirre
José Luis López Vázquez	...	Don Perrone
Antonio Marsina	...	Vittorio
Roberto Antonelli
Patrick La Place
Adriano Amidei Migliano	...	Dottore
Eduardo Fajardo	...	Rettore
Franco Ferri
Pep Munné
Lautaro Murúa
Alessandro Poggi
Emiliano Redondo

Also Known As:

Death in the Vatican (USA) (review title)
Muerte en el Vaticano (Spain)
Vatican Conspiracy (International: English title)

Runtime:

105 min

Country:

Spain | Italy | Mexico

Language:

Italian

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Very unsatisfactory story of the murder of a Pope, badly dubbed.

This is a fictionalized version of the alleged "murder" of Pope John Paul I, which the author has mixed with a totally implausible story of an idealistic young priest who goes to India and Nepal and becomes an ecclesiastical Fascist. There's a seductive female terrorist too. It's hard to take this farrago of nonsense seriously, except that Terence Stamp is dignified as the Pope and everyone else, especially the young priest, is dreadful. The English dubbing is appalling: it sounds like low grade amateur theatricals. Naturally it's sad that the writer/director is dead, but this is very poor.