To Kill a Priest
1988 French film
- September 7, 1988 (1988-09-07) (France)
- October 13, 1989 (1989-10-13) (USA)
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To Kill a Priest is a 1988 drama film directed by Agnieszka Holland. The film tells a story based on the murder, under the Polish communist regime, of priest Jerzy Popiełuszko.[2] It stars Christopher Lambert as a fictionalized version of Popiełuszko and Ed Harris as the secret police captain set to assassinate him.[3]
Cast
- Christopher Lambert as Father Alek
- Ed Harris as Stefan
- Joss Ackland as Colonel
- Tim Roth as Feliks
- Timothy Spall as Igor
- Pete Postlethwaite as Josef
- Cherie Lunghi as Halina
- Joanne Whalley as Anna
- David Suchet as Bishop
- Jerome Flynn
- Vincent Grass
Discography
The CD soundtrack composed and conducted by Georges Delerue is available on Music Box Records label (website). The main theme, "Crimes of Cain", was written and performed by Joan Baez.
Reception
Critical response
To Kill a Priest has an approval rating of 67% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 6 reviews, and an average rating of 5.8/10.[4]
References
External links
- To Kill a Priest at IMDb
- To Kill a Priest at Box Office Mojo
- To Kill a Priest at Rotten Tomatoes
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Works directed by Agnieszka Holland
- Provincial Actors (1979)
- Fever (1981)
- A Lonely Woman (1981)
- Angry Harvest (1985)
- To Kill a Priest (1988)
- Europa Europa (1990)
- Olivier, Olivier (1992)
- The Secret Garden (1993)
- Total Eclipse (1995)
- Washington Square (1997)
- The Third Miracle (1999)
- Shot in the Heart (2001)
- Julie Walking Home (2002)
- A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story (2006)
- Copying Beethoven (2006)
- Janosik: A True Story (2009)
- In Darkness (2011)
- Spoor (2017)
- Mr Jones (2019)
- Charlatan (2020)
- Green Border (2023)
- Burning Bush (2013)
- Rosemary's Baby (2014)
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