The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968)

Directors

Michael Anderson

Cast

Anthony Quinn, Laurence Olivier, Oskar Werner, David Janssen, Vittorio De Sica, Leo McKern, Barbara Jefford, Rosemary Dexter, John Gielgud, Burt Kwouk, Arnoldo Foà

The story

During the height of the Cold War, Kiril Pavlovich Lakota, the Metropolitan Archbishop of Lviv, Soviet Union, is unexpectedly set free after 20 years in a Siberian labour camp by his former gaoler Piotr Ilyich Kamenev, now the Premier of the Soviet Union. He is sent to Rome, where the pope makes him a cardinal, assigned titulus of the Church of St. Athanasius.

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