In the Pope's Eye (1980) on Netflix
The Pope, troubled that the young have drifted from the faith, launches a Vatican television station and hires a musician as artistic director. Cardinal Richelieu plots to ruin it.
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Plot summary
The Pope is disturbed by the fact that today's youth are not as spiritually inclined as they should be, and so he decides to set up a Vatican television station and entice them back into the religion of their ancestors. In order to particularly grab the wandering flock, a priest invites the comedians from "The Other Sunday," an actual comedy program on Italian television, to perform on this new channel.
Cast
- Luciano De Crescenzoas God
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about In the Pope's Eye (1980)
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- Renzo Arbore's In the Pope's Eye was heavily attacked by the Catholic press, and three weeks after its September 1980 release it was confiscated for insulting the Catholic religion and the Pope, on the orders of L'Aquila prosecutor Donato Massimo Bartolomei.
