The eventful life of a humble Polish priest who once decried the pomp of the Catholic Church "a circus" and labeled the Pope a "prisoner of the Vatican" before ascending to the papal throne to usher Catholicism into the 21st century. Born in Poland and forced to carry on following the untimely death of his family, Karol Wojtyla endured both personal hardships and the rape of his homeland by the Third Reich to spread the word of God through the Catholic Church. Later, as Pope John Paul II, Wojtyla was beloved by millions of Catholics worldwide. From the sexual-abuse scandal that shook the American Catholic Church in the later-20th century to the murder of Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero and the near-fatal assassination attempt made on his own life, Pope John Paul II endured to bridge the gap between various faiths until his death resulting from Parkinson's disease in April of 2005.
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Thomas Kretschmann as Pope John Paul II
Bruno Ganz as Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski
Joaquim de Almeida as Archbishop Oscar Romero
John Albasiny as Father Stanislaw Dziwisz
Charles Kay as Pope Paul VI
Sabrina Jàvor as Ginka
Jasper Harris as Young Karol Wojtyla
Peter Goranov as Karol's Father
Roland Oliver as Archbishop Adam Sapieha
Richard Rees as General Wojciech Jaruzelski
Michael Klesic as Stanislaw Starowleyski
David Barras as Party Official
Sebastian Knapp as Ali Agca
Inga Šalkauskaitė as Karol's Mother
Sebastien Szumilas as Young Karol Wojtyla (voice)
Dainius Kazlauskas as Dr. Francesco Crucitti
Aleksandras Kleinas as
Eric Olive as Delegate
Giedrius Arbačiauskas as Officer
Simon Burzynski as Polish Man
Arvydas Dapšys as Cardinal
Kiril Glušajev as Student
Paulius Ignatavičius as Edmund
Petras Liskauskas as Polish Officer
Lorenzo Minoli as Bishop
John Paul I. as Self (archival footage) (uncredited)
Clayton Richard-Long as Self
Donatas Šimukauskas as Priest
Sakalas Uždavinys as Bodyguard
Liudvikas Vilimas as Young Priest
Sonata Visockaitė as Nun
Lech Wałęsa as Self (archival footage) (uncredited)
Šarūnas Zenkevičius as Altar Boy
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