Pope Joan is a 1972

1972 in film

The year 1972 in film involved some significant events.-Top grossing films :- Awards :Academy Awards:*Avanti!, directed by Billy Wilder, starring Jack Lemmon and Juliet MillsB...

 British drama film

Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 based on the story of Pope Joan

Pope Joan

Pope Joan is a legendary female Pope who, it is purported, reigned for a few years some time in the Middle Ages. The story first appeared in the writings of 13th-century chroniclers, and subsequently spread through Europe...

.. It was directed by Michael Anderson

Michael Anderson (director)

Michael Joseph Anderson, Sr. is an English film director, best known for directing The Dam Busters , Around the World in 80 Days and Logan's Run .-Early life:...

 and has a cast which includes Liv Ullmann

Liv Ullmann

Liv Johanne Ullmann is a Norwegian actress and film director, as well as one of the "muses" of the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman...

 (in the lead role), Olivia de Havilland

Olivia de Havilland

Olivia Mary de Havilland is a British American film and stage actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1946 and 1949. She is the elder sister of actress Joan Fontaine. The sisters are among the last surviving leading ladies from Hollywood of the 1930s.-Early life:Olivia de Havilland...

, Lesley-Anne Down

Lesley-Anne Down

Lesley-Anne Down is a British film and television actress, former model and singer.Down achieved fame as Georgina Worsley in the ITV drama series Upstairs, Downstairs...

, Franco Nero

Franco Nero

Franco Nero is an Italian actor.-Early life:Nero was born Francesco Sparanero in San Prospero Parmense , the son of a sergeant in the...

 and Maximillian Schell.

The film was released on DVD in 2003 on Region 1 format disc. It was also re-titled in some areas as The Devil's Imposter, with much material cut. It has recently been re-edited with previously unreleased footage to make a whole new film called She... Who Would Be Pope.

Cast

• Liv Ullmann
  Liv Ullmann
  Liv Johanne Ullmann is a Norwegian actress and film director, as well as one of the "muses" of the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman...
  
   as Pope Joan
• Olivia de Havilland
  Olivia de Havilland
  Olivia Mary de Havilland is a British American film and stage actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1946 and 1949. She is the elder sister of actress Joan Fontaine. The sisters are among the last surviving leading ladies from Hollywood of the 1930s.-Early life:Olivia de Havilland...
  
   as Mother Superior
• Lesley-Anne Down
  Lesley-Anne Down
  Lesley-Anne Down is a British film and television actress, former model and singer.Down achieved fame as Georgina Worsley in the ITV drama series Upstairs, Downstairs...
  
   as Cecilia
• Trevor Howard
  Trevor Howard
  Trevor Howard , born Trevor Wallace Howard-Smith, was an English film, stage and television actor.-Early life:...
  
   as Pope Leo
• Jeremy Kemp
  Jeremy Kemp
  Jeremy Kemp is an English actor. He is known for his roles in the miniseries The Winds of War, The Blue Max and Z-Cars....
  
   as Joan's Father
• Patrick Magee
  Patrick Magee (actor)
  Patrick Magee was a Northern Irish actor best known for his collaborations with Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter, as well as his appearances in horror films and in Stanley Kubrick's films A Clockwork Orange and Barry Lyndon.-Early life:He was born Patrick McGee in Armagh, County Armagh, Northern...
  
   as Elder monk
• Franco Nero
  Franco Nero
  Franco Nero is an Italian actor.-Early life:Nero was born Francesco Sparanero in San Prospero Parmense , the son of a sergeant in the...
  
   as Louis
• Maximillian Schell as Brother Adrian
• Martin Benson
  Martin Benson (actor)
  Martin Benjamin Benson was an English character actor, who appeared in films, theatre and television. He appeared in both British and Hollywood productions.-Career:...
  
   as Lothair
• Terrence Hardiman as Cardinal Anastasius
• André Morell
  André Morell
  André Morell was a British actor. He appeared frequently in theatre, film and on television from the 1930s to the 1970s...
  
   as Emperor Louis
• Richard Pearson
  Richard Pearson
  Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Lyons Otway Pearson CB was Assistant Commissioner of the London Metropolitan Police from 1881 to 1890....
  
   as Father Timothy
• Margareta Pogonat as village woman
• John Shrapnel
  John Shrapnel
  John Shrapnel is an English actor.Shrapnel was born in Birmingham, Warwickshire, the son of Mary Lillian Myfanwy and journalist/author Norman Shrapnel....
  
   as Father James
• Sharon Winter as young Joan

External links

• She Who Would Be Pope official site