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"Born in ninth-century Europe, Joan aspires to an education, a privilege then denied to girls. When her brother is killed in a Viking raid, she assumes his identity as a male, enters a monastery, and rises through the ranks of the church to the Throne of Saint Peter itself."@en
""A woman of English extraction born in the German city of Ingelheim in the ninth century disguises herself as a man and rises through the Vatican ranks."--IMDb."
"Het verhaal over de enige vrouwelijke paus ooit, de 9de eeuwse Johanna die zich verkleedt als man en snel opklimt in het Vaticaan."
"This film is based on the medieval legend of Pope Joan, who was made Pope for a brief period around 855 A.D."@en
"Story of a supposedly female Pope sometime in the Middle Ages, now widely recognised as fictitious (it is based on a novel, after all)."
"Set against the turbulent events of the Dark Ages, a fictional account of the life of Pope Joan profiles a spirited woman who, disguised as a man, rose to rule Christianity as the only woman ever to become pope."@en
""In 814 A.D. Johanna is condemned to life as a woman. Because she senses that her destiny is a different one, that God is showing her a different path. She joins the Benedictine Monastery at Fulda Disguised as s man and calling herself Brother Johannes. She lives there as a successful and well-respected doctor. Johanna continues to move up the hierarchy and the danger of her being found out becomes greater and greater. She meets Gerold there in Rome and realizes that there is one thing she can no longer deny: her love. When Pope Sergius dies, Johanna is named as his successor. However, her feelings for Gerold are stronger than her fear of being found out - but Johanna's enemies are just waiting for a chance to remove her from the throne..."--Container."
""Her existence was a secret. Her name was deleted from the books of history. Yet the life of Joan -who led the Catholic Church under the name of Pope John Anglicus in the 9th century - has become a legend. Her existence was a secret. Her name was deleted from the books of history. Yet the life of Joan -who led the Catholic Church under the name of Pope John Anglicus in the 9th century - has become a legend. Joan was born in 814 A.D. She rebels against a predestined and constraining path for her as a woman early in her young life. She is convinced God has planned a different destiny for her. Ultimately, she falls in love with the nobleman Gerold (David Wenham). While he goes to war, she bethinks her inner voice, joins a Benedictine monastery disguised as a man under the name of John. She becomes a physician, goes to Rome, where she wins the favour of the Holy Father (John Goodman) and thus rises ever higher in the ecclesiastical hierarchy."--Container."

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"Film adaptations"@en
"Film adaptations"
"Motion pictures, German"
"Motion pictures, Spanish"
"Drama"@en
"Drama"
"Motion pictures, Italian"
"Fiction"@en
"Fiction films"@en
"Fiction films"
"Book discussion kit"@en
"Historical fiction"@en
"Feature films"@en
"Feature films"
"General fiction"@en
"Historical films"
"Handbooks and manuals"@en
"History"@en

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"Pope Joan [kit] : a novel"@en
"Pope Joan = La Pontifice = Die Päpstin"
"Pope Joan : [regular print book discussion kit] : a novel"@en
"Pope Joan"@en
"Pope Joan"

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