Season 1
Cast & Crew
Christopher Lee
Kardinal Stefan Wyszyński
Cary Elwes
Young Karol Wojtyla
Ben Gazzara
Kardinal Agostino Casaroli
Jon Voight
Pope John Paul II / Karol Wojtyla
James Cromwell
Cardinal Adam Sapieha
Barbara Pastrovich
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Krzysztof Pieczyński
Czerny
Sergio Ercolessi
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Giuliano Gemma
Dr. Joaquín Navarro-Valls
Daniele Pecci
Roman
Vittoria Belvedere
Eva
Wenanty Nosul
Don Stanisław Dziwisz
Ettore Bassi
Gapa
Valéria Cavalli
Teresa
Chiara Conti
Anna
Giulietta Revel
Halina
Mikołaj Grabowski
Card. Joseph Ratzinger
Fabrizio Bucci
Krysztof Zachuta
Andy Luotto
Homeless person
Harald Posch
Hans Frank
John Kent Harrison
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Jan Maria Michelini
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Tracy Young
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Episode Guide
On September 1, 1939, the Germans invade Poland. At that time, many years after the death of his mother and several years after the death of his elder brother, a young Karol Wojtyla makes his home in Krakow with his ailing father. Karol had been studying at the university and, though it is dangerous and forbidden under Nazi occupation, he continues with actor friends to put on plays as a means of preserving and saluting their Polish culture.