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The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968) was a Drama Film directed by Michael Anderson .

Academy Awards 1968 --- Ceremony Number 41 (source: AMPAS)

AwardRecipientResult
Best Art DirectionArt Direction: George W. Davis, Edward CarfagnoNominated
Best Music - ScoringAlex NorthNominated
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Cardinal Leone: Do you accept election?
[Kiril hesitates]
Cardinal Leone: You must answer now. Do you accept election?
Kiril Lakota: I accept. And may God have mercy on me.
Cardinal Leone: By what name will you be called?
Kiril Lakota: We choose to be called by our own name, Kiril. He was the saint that first brought the Gospels into our country.


George Faber: I think, Eminence, you may have caught yourself a Tartar.
Cardinal Rinaldi: I think we may have caught a Christian.


Kiril Lakota: Though I speak with the tongues of men and angels, and not charity, I am become a sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. Though I have all faith so that I could remove mountains and have not charity, I am nothing.


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Despite being listed in the main credits of the film George Pravda is nowhere to be seen.
Although it is never mentioned or indicated at any point in the film, the story is actually set 20 years in the future.
Alex North reused the opening fanfare he wrote for 2001: A Space Odyssey but which had been rejected by Stanley Kubrick, as one of the main themes in his score.
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