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The film tells a story based on the murder, under the Polish communist regime, of priest Jerzy Popiełuszko. It stars Christopher Lambert as a fictionalized version of Popiełuszko and Ed Harris as the secret police captain set to assassinate him.
To Kill A Priest: Directed by Agnieszka Holland. With Christopher Lambert, Ed Harris, Joss Ackland, Tim Roth. A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.
A Polish militia officer (Ed Harris) plots the assassination of a priest (Christopher Lambert) who supports the Solidarity movement.
"To Kill a Priest" is a movie of great, almost crushing, sincerity, but it is so ineptly made that scene after scene strikes the wrong note, or no note at all. Set in Poland in 1981, at the dawn of the Solidarity movement, it tells the story of a radical priest and the security agent who shadows him for months and finally kills him.
To Kill a Priest. 1988. 1 hr 57 mins. Drama, Suspense. R. Watchlist. Fictionalized account of a Polish cleric (Christopher Lambert) kidnapped for his involvement with...
A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.
To Kill A Priest. Directed by Agniezska Holland, this gripping and chilling drama is based on the true story of political unrest in Poland prior to the fall of communism and Father Jerzy Popieluszko, the Solidarity chaplain who was murdered by the secret police in 1984.
