Word: cardinalate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind the assaults loomed the stocky, swarthy figure of Georgy Maximovich Pushkin, Soviet ambassador to the German Democratic Republic. Pushkin had successfully directed the Red rape of Hungary; in 3½ years as Russian ambassador in Budapest he had discreetly masterminded many a Communist coup, including the trials of Cardinal...
Her husband had died four months ago. Afterwards Felicitas, pregnant with her eighth child, went to Dean Jeronimo Carranza to ask for her husband's job. "It is against tradition," said the dean. When Felicitas appealed, the cardinal himself upheld the dean.
In the first place, only a minor part of the picture really concerns itself with Cardinal Mindszenty. There are long and dreary ideological dialogues between a Russian Army Colonel and a dewy-eyed young lady who plays the Hungarian National Anthem as a diversion. When this young lady, acted by...
Submerged by this love story hopelessly entangled by polities is the account of the trial itself. Charles Bickford, the Cardinal in the movie, is one of the few who can act. He, at least, has a variation of facial expression and a change of inflection in his voice. His prosecutors...
As a movie, "Guilty of Treason" is badly acted, confusing, and overly melodramatic. As an account of Cardinal Mindszenty's trial, one can only wonder why the scriptwriters had to bury it under so much superfluous and undocumented plot.