'Corpus Christi' director Jan Komasa and writer Mateusz Pacewicz were fascinated by the cases of men pretending to be ordained ministers of the Catholic Church in Poland.
The Catholic Church has had its share of disturbing controversies, yet it still draws many to its flock. So much so that in Poland there appears to be an issue with fake priests — men pretending to be ordained ministers of the church, and many of them believing they are doing it for the “right” reasons.
That unexpected trend became a passion for Mateusz Pacewicz, a young writer whose short novel became the film “Corpus Christi,” Poland’s submission for the 2020 international feature film Oscar that Komasa came on board to direct. According to Komasa, Pacewicz became obsessed with the motivations of these impostors, especially one case in which a young man pretended to be a priest during Corpus Christi, a Catholic holiday that occurs in May or June depending on the year.
The final film focuses on a fictional character, Daniel , a young man looking to escape the chains of the juvenile detention center he lives in because of a second-degree murder sentence he received as a teenager. He forges a relationship with the priest at the youth center and has a spiritual transformation. But he cannot go to seminary because he’s a convicted felon. While in a work-release program, he is mistaken for a small town’s new priest and he jumps at the opportunity.
“Bartosz had it and I felt it from the beginning and I knew that he’s capable of doing this. We just had to both work on characteristics of Bartosz and make him 10 kilos heavier and bigger, more muscular, behaving like a hooligan.”
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