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13 October 1989 (USA) morePlot:
A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it. | add synopsisUser Comments:
Central miscasting spoils a good film moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Christopher Lambert | ... | Father Alek |
 | Ed Harris | ... | Stefan |
 | Joss Ackland | ... | Colonel |
 | Tim Roth | ... | Feliks |
 | Timothy Spall | ... | Igor |
 | Pete Postlethwaite | ... | Josef (as Peter Postlethwaite) |
 | Cherie Lunghi | ... | Halina |
 | Joanne Whalley | ... | Anna |
| David Suchet | ... | Bishop |
 | Charlie Condou | ... | Mirek (as Charles Condou) |
| Tom Radcliffe | ... | Young Soldier |
| Wojciech Pszoniak | ... | Bridge Player (as Wojtek Pszoniak) |
| Johnny Allen | ||
| George Birt | (as Georges Birt) | |
| André Chaumeau | (as Andre Chaumeau) |
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West Germany:16 | Iceland:16 (video rating) | Iceland:14 (original rating) | Spain:13 | Finland:K-16 | USA:R | Argentina:13MOVIEmeter: 
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Every so often, you can see a mediocre film, and get a hint of what the film could have been with just a few changes. This is one of them; it features several excellent actors - Ed Harris, Tim Roth, Pete Postlethwaite, Joss Ackland (sorry for misspellings!) - but one unforgivably bad casting decision: casting the absolutely charisma-deprived Christopher Lambert as the Priest. To believe in the film at all, the priest has to be seen as dangerously attractive to the people, a charismatic leader. Lambert cannot portray that. He is one of the worst actors around, and he kills this picture dead.
Two other major gripes about the film: there is a scene where the priest is lectured by his bishop and then sent to Rome - or not, since he never actually goes. What was that there for? To show that the Polish Church was in cahoots - or at least practiced accommodation - with the government? Fine. But at least, SEND HIM TO ROME. Otherwise you have a useless scene that detracts from the movie.
The other gripe: I suppose there is some screenwriter union rule that dictates that if you have a movie involving a priest, an attractive woman has to fall hopelessly in love with him. What a stupid, useless, cliché, especially in a movie like this.