The most interesting thing about the movie, “The Shoes of the Fisherman” (1968), which aired on Turner Classic Movies' Catholic Easter marathon yesterday, is that the new Pope was a Ukrainian who survived 20 years as a prisoner in a Soviet gulag.
Past is prologue and fiction reveals truths. The Ukrainian angle is coincidentally amazing. Plus, the movie was released 10 years before the Vatican named an anti-Soviet cleric from Eastern Europe its Pope in 1978.
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