Word: kirill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Where Morris L. West's bestseller merely strained credulity, the movie shatters it beyond repair. In Siberia, a political prisoner has been pardoned by Russia's Premier (Laurence Olivier) after 20 years in a slave-labor camp. The freed man is no ordinary convict: he is Kiril Lakota, a tough, Mindszenty-like Slavic archbishop. Lakota has been sprung because Russia and China stand ready to trigger an atomic holocaust. The premier, who just happens to be La-kota's former inquisitor, is desperately gambling that the prelate can somehow persuade the world that the Soviet Union wants...
...long shot pays astonishing dividends. In Rome, Lakota is named a cardinal, and then, against his will, chosen Pope at a deadlocked consistory of the sacred college. Imprisoned anew, this time in an office that removes him from his fellow man, Pope Kiril walks incognito in the streets of the city. In the space of an hour, he proves that he is still a regular guy by hobnobbing with the ragazzi of Rome, exhibits his ecumenism by reciting the Shema Yisrael in the house of a dying Jew, and outdoes Dear Abby by cementing a broken marriage. His ex-cathedra...
...times-and some of his melodic writing in the first movement is downright dull. But the elegiac sweep of the middle adagio movement and the jauntiness of the finale compensate admirably for these shortcomings. The concerto is not quite a masterpiece, but Oistrakh and the Moscow Philharmonic under Conductor Kiril Kondrashin perform it as though it were...
...scene was a crowd stopper: a man in Pope's raiment was kissing a pretty young girl. But it was only Actor Anthony Quinn, 51, dressed as the fictional Pope Kiril I in the movie version of The Shoes of the Fisherman, bestowing a paternal peck on Daughter Catalina, 25, when she visited the set in Rome. That little respite notwithstanding, Quinn is living his role with fierce dedication-so much so that shooting had to be stopped two weeks because of a huge swelling of Quinn's right eye that he is convinced was psychogenic. "It used...
...scalpers were buying from each other, and at one concert, 600 crashers forced their way in. The next night the Russians played; there were enough empty spaces in the hall to drive a tractor around in, and the crowd dwindled further at intermission. It wasn't that Conductor Kiril Kondrashin had given a poor concert; it was just that the exuberance of Mehta, his orchestra, and Negro Pianist Andre Watts's performance of a Liszt concerto were a hard act to follow...