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To Kill a Priest

5.6

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Original title

To Kill a Priest (Le Complot)

Year

1988

Running time

117 min.

Country

United States

Director

Agnieszka Holland

Screenwriter

Michael Cooper, Agnieszka Holland, Jean-Yves Pitoun

Cast

Music

Zbigniew Preisner, Georges Delerue, Joan Baez

Cinematography

Adam Holender

Producer

Co-production United States-France;

France 3 Cinéma, J.P. Productions, Columbia Pictures, Sofica Valor

Genre

Drama | Based on a true story. Religion. Politics

Synopsis

One of the first films by Polish director Agnieszka Holland to gain international acclaim, this drama is a joint French-American production based loosely on the real-life story of the dissident Polish priest Jerzy Popieluszko. In the early 1980s, as the democracy and labor movement known as Solidarity was challenging Soviet authority in Poland, an outspoken priest, Father Alek (Christopher Lambert), defies martial law and continues to rally followers around the cause of Solidarity. The Soviet-controlled Polish government enlists a police official, Stefan (Ed Harris), to stop the priest. Stefan, a devoted party follower, finds that the only way he can silence Father Alek is to have him killed. Along the way, however, the priest has a profound influence on Stefan. Among those in minor roles are Joanne Whalley-Kilmer, Pete Postlethwaite, and Tim Roth. Holland would go on to direct The Secret Garden and Washington Square. (Michael Betzold, All Movie Guide)

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To Kill a Priest

1988

Agnieszka Holland

5.6

(338)