The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968)
Stars: Anthony Quinn, Laurence Olivier, Sir John Gielgud, etc.
Directed by Michael Anderson
A Russian archbishop (Quinn) was released after 20 years of being a political prisoner in Siberia and was returned to the Vatican. Instantly he was elected by the then-present Pope Pius XIII as Cardinal, but then was elected as the new Pope after Pius XIII died a few days after.
Here we see an insight of what goes on inside the Vatican in the events of the judgements of an ordinary priest's philosophies to a certain panel of cardinals to the Sistine Chapel papal elections (some scenes were actual video footage of papal elections and celebration). Although there seems to be no sense to what the Cold War decisions between China and Russia has to do with the Vatican pontifications (and even to the part about a reporter's affairs with another woman), the words or speech in the last few minutes of the movie (papal inauguration) puts all such nonsense scenes to relevance...and even to the global crisis we have today.
