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Testimony

 

Press Conference

Press conference

Testimony press conference, held in Italy October 15, was packed with press from around the world.

Press Conference

Polish Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz (right) speaks to reporters with actor Michael York (left) and film producer Przemyslaw Hauser (center) during a news conference to promote a new documentary film on the life of the late Pope John Paul II in Rome, October 15, 2008.

About the Film Testimony

Recounted through in-depth interviews with the Pontiff's trusted advisor of 40 years, Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz - and blended with recently uncovered and never-before-seen archival footage of John Paul's early career and eventual ascendancy to the papacy, TESTIMONY is a revealing portrait of a man who touched the lives of billions, and changed history.

Lovingly narrated by Michael York, featuring music by Oscar-winning composer Vangelis, filmed in hitherto off-limits locations in the Vatican, and full of new and shocking revelations about the Pope. TESTIMONY is winning converts the world over thanks to massive press and media coverage of the film's premiere screening at the Vatican - attended by Pope Benedict, various heads of state, and thousands of multi-denominational spectators on October 16th, 2008.

Among the many amazing revelations in this ground-breaking documentary:
  • Pope John Paul II was stabbed during a second failed assassination
    attempt that was kept secret by the Vatican...until now.
  • Pope John Paul II liked to disguise himself and sneak out of the
    Vatican to mix with the people incognito.
  • The Pontiff began his career as an actor, and had a great talent
    for Karaoke.
  • His Holiness performed an exorcism.

The story of the Pontiff's life is told through rare archive footage, historical recreations, and key interviews with Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz - the Pope's right-hand man for over 40 years, who recently published a tell-all book that has sold over a million copies in Poland alone.

About the book

Visit Amazon to learn more about the best-selling book, A Life with Karol: My Forty-Year Friendship with the Man Who Became Pope, by Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwis

Availabilities

Worldwide rights, excluding Poland and Russian TV, are currently available.

Available for theatrical, DVD, television, and all digital distribution. The title can be licensed as a stand-alone feature film, or expanded into 3 x 50' pieces for broadcast or cable television.

U.S. rights are also available, and the title will have very strong sell-through and collector-edition appeal to general audience Catholics and non-Catholics alike, as well as strong potential with predominantly Catholic U.S. Hispanics (35+ million).

This title holds mass appeal in Catholic countries (there are 2.1 billion Catholics in the world).

Film Licensing, Pre-Sales, and Distribution

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Press Coverage

Film on John Paul II reveals 1982 knife attack drew blood

AFPVATICAN CITY (AFP) — A film on the late pope John Paul II reveals that a crazed priest who tried to assassinate him with a bayonet in 1982 managed to reach him and draw blood with the weapon, a senior religious figure told AFP on Wednesday.

The film based on the memoirs of the Polish pope's personal secretary Stanislaw Dziwisz recalled the incident in Fatima, Portugal, which came almost exactly a year after John Paul II nearly lost his life to Turkish would-be assassin Mehmet Ali Agca.

"There was blood," Dziwisz says in the film "Testimony," according to the the Vatican prelate who viewed it in a special advance screening at the Vatican.

The injury was not revealed at the time.

Read full story by AFP (French news service in English)

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John Paul Aide Reveals 1982 Pope Stabbing Cover-Up

Fox NewsJohn Paul’s former top aide opens up about the pope in a new documentary film called “Testimony.”

The film was made from Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz’s memoir, published last year.

View coverage by Fox News (English)

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Aide: John Paul was wounded in 1982 stabbing

Pontiff wounded by priest a year after being shot, documentary reveals

MSNBCVATICAN CITY - The late Pope John Paul II was wounded by a knife-wielding priest in 1982, a year after he was shot in St. Peter's Square, but the injury was kept secret, his former top aide says in a documentary film.

Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz also disclosed that when John Paul was unable to pronounce words several days before his death in 2005, he told his aides that if he could not speak any more the time had come for him to die.

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In the footsteps of John Paul II

GazetaThenews.pl meets British actor Michael York at the Vatican, Rome, and asks him how working on the film Testimony - the story of Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz’s time serving John Paul II - was a ’voyage of discovery’?

Michael York stars in the movie version of Testimony, the world premiere of which takes place in the Vatican, October 16, 30 years to the day since Karol Wojtyla was elected to the pontificate.

The film is a documentary, interspersed with re-enacted scenes from the memoirs of Cardinal Dziwisz’s autobiography, which sold over one million copies in Poland alone. Michael York narrates the film from behind, and in front of the camera.

The movie elaborates on the original book by Cardinal Dziwisz, with new revelations and details of Karol Wojtyla’s life and work.

View story on TheNews.pl (Polish site in English)

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Benedicto XVI asiste a estreno de película sobre Juan Pablo II

TelevisaCIUDAD DEL VATICANO, oct. 16, 2008.- Benedicto XVI asistió al estreno mundial de la película "Testimonio", basada en el libro "Una vida con Karol", del cardenal Stanislaw Dziwisz, que revela en el filme que Juan Pablo II fue herido en 1982 en Fátima (Portugal) por el sacerdote ultraconservador español Juan Fernández Krohn.

El purpurado, que fue secretario del Papa durante 39 años, también cuenta un hecho que ya era conocido, que Juan Pablo II realizó un exorcismo en el Vaticano a una mujer endemoniada.

View Televisa coverage (Spanish)

Coverage on Terra.com (Spanish)

Visit the Radio Vatican site for audio from the press conference (Italian)