A curious, at times almost prescient anticipation of the reign of John Paul II, filtered partly through the lens of the Silly Sixties.

Unless you have read the novel by Morris West on which the film is based, the first two hours are unintelligible.

Critics have comically dubbed it Zorba the Pope.

Settle back and let this old fashioned but entirely enjoyable epic (from Aussie writer Morris West's novel) take you on a journey that is in many ways every bit as relevant today as it was then