Have No Fear: The Life of Pope John Paul II
Have No Fear: The Life of Pope John Paul II
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
Jasper Harris
as Young Karol Wojtyla
Richard Rees
as General Wojciech Jaruzelski
Michael Klesic
as Stanislaw Starowleyski
Inga Šalkauskaitė
as Karol's Mother
Dainius Kazlauskas
as Dr. Francesco Crucitti
Aleksandras Kleinas
Arvydas Dapšys
as Cardinal
Paulius Ignatavičius
as Edmund
John Paul I.
as Self (archival footage) (uncredited)
Donatas Šimukauskas
as Priest
Sakalas Uždavinys
as Bodyguard
Sonata Visockaitė
as Nun
Lech Wałęsa
as Self (archival footage) (uncredited)
Šarūnas Zenkevičius
as Altar Boy
