Gates to Paradise (film)

Gates to Paradise (film)

Infobox Film
name = Gates to Paradise


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director = Andrzej Wajda
producer = Sam Waynberg
writer = Jerzy Andrzejewski
Donald Howarth
Interpreter = Vladek Sheybal/ narrator =
starring = John Fordyce
Lionel Stander
Mathieu Carrière
Pauline Challoner
Ferdy Mayne
music = Ward Swingle
cinematography = Mieczyslaw Jahoda
editing =
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released = 1968
runtime = UK: 89 min / DE: 77 min
country = United Kingdom / Yugoslavia
language = English
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imdb_id = 0062461
:"For Ghiberti's "Gates of Paradise"; see Battistero di San Giovanni

"Gates to Paradise" is a 1968 movie by Polish director Andrzej Wajda. The film is set in medieval France and is based on a story by Polish writer Jerzy Andrzejewski (1960) that seeks to expose the motives behind youthful religious zeal.

Plot synopsis

In 1212, a Children's Crusade is launched after Jakob (John Fordyce) claims to have had a vision in which it is said that the innocence of children would be able to liberate Jerusalem. A monk (Lionel Stander), returning from Jerusalem, joins the crusade and hears the children's confessions, gradually realizing that most of them are not taking part not for religious, but for more worldly reasons, like rejected love.

Both Alexander (Mathieu Carrière) and Bianca (Pauline Challoner) are in love with Jakob. Alexander, who has learned that his adoptive father (and his lover), Count Ludwig (Ferdy Mayne), also a crusader, had killed Alexander's Greek parents, is gleeful that Jakob himself is in love with the Count, whom he had met after the Count and Alexander had split after an argument. This allows Alexander to take revenge for the Count's infidelity by telling his beloved Jakob about the Count's recent demise by drowning in a river, watched by an unmoved Alexander.

Finally, it is revealed in Jakob's confession that Jakob received the inspiration for the crusade not from God but from the Count, which means that the crusade must fail, since it is not by the will of God. However, the monk is unable to stop the children's progression and is left behind.

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