Review of Pope Joan

This is a fascinating story about the life of a woman with a special character and psychology. Indeed, the movie has its foundations on the kind of role usually played by Johanna Wokalek. But besides the protagonist and the role of a woman, the events are in themselves thrilling, sometimes even riveting. The background is rich and attractive: we are able to witness peasant life at a time and era quite unknown in history, reduced to kings, popes, battles... and little daily life of the topical feudal pyramid society. Imagination plays a major role. Could it have been a real event, one more of those astounding facts lost among the chronicles of the dark ages?. Possibility is evident; probability is high.