Il pap'occhio
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| Directed by | Renzo Arbore |
| Produced by | Mario Orfini Emilio Bolles |
| Written by | Renzo Arbore Luciano De Crescenzo |
| Starring | Renzo Arbore Roberto Benigni |
| Music by | Renzo Arbore |
| Cinematography | Luciano Tovoli |
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| Country | Italy |
| Language | Italian |
In the Pope's Eye (Italian: Il pap'occhio) is a 1980 Italian comedy film written and directed by Renzo Arbore.
It was released in September 1980, and it was heavily attacked by the Catholic press. Three weeks later it was confiscated "for insulting the Catholic religion and the person of the Holy Pope" on the orders of the L'Aquila prosecutor Donato Massimo Bartolomei.
The film grossed 5 billion lire being the 5th best grossing film in Italy in the 1980/1981 season.
The musician Renzo Arbore has a vision of Don Gabriel, who came to bring an Annunciation by the Vatican: in fact, Pope John Paul II, watching television, was impressed by a commercial promoting beer of which Arbore was the spokesman, and decided to hire him as artistic director of the nascent Vatican state television. Then Arbore and his company come to the Vatican to get down to work. Meanwhile, a bigot and traditionalist prelate, Cardinal Richelieu, plot to boycott the initiative of the Pope.
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