Thursday, March 5, 2009

Jesuits Saint Subject Of New Film Featuring Harvey Keitel

Contra Studio received $1.1m (PLN 4m) in production funds for Lowca Dusz. Directed by Robert Glinski, the international co-production between Poland, Russia, Germany and Ukraine has a total budget of $3m (PLN 11.2). Harvey Keitel will play the main role in the Polish-language film which tells the story of two American Jesuits (Fathers Edmund A. Walsh and Louis J. Gallagher) who attempt to remove the relics of St. Andrew Bobola, S.J. from the Soviet Union.

Link (here)

Go to McNamara's Blog for some more indepth historical perspective (here) on the Jesuits and the movie.

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