To Kill a Priest

To Kill a Priest
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Agnieszka Holland
Written by	Agnieszka Holland (screenplay) Michael Cooper (English adaptation) Jean-Yves Pitoun
Starring	Christopher Lambert
Music by	Georges Delerue
Cinematography	Adam Holender
Edited by	Hervé de Luze
Production company	France 3 Cinéma
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release dates	October 13, 1989
Running time	117 minutes
Country	France
Language	English

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.^[1] It stars Christopher Lambert as a fictionalized version of Popiełuszko and Ed Harris as the secret police captain set to assassinate him.^[2]

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

References

↑ To Kill a priest review, Entertainment Weekly, April 6 1990
↑ To Kill a Priest at AllMovie

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.

External links

To Kill a Priest at the Internet Movie Database
To Kill a Priest at Box Office Mojo
To Kill a Priest at Rotten Tomatoes

Films 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) Julie Walking Home (2002) Copying Beethoven (2006) In Darkness (2011) Burning Bush (2013)

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