The Shoes of the Fisherman

Movie (1968)
Starring:
Anthony Quinn (Kiril Lakota, the pope)
Oskar Werner (Fr. David Telemond )
Laurence Olivier (Piotr Ilyich Kamenev)
Burt Kwouk (Peng)
After twenty years spent as a prisonner in a labor camp in Siberia, Kiril Lakota is free and follows a young priest to Rome, where he's quickly elevated to Cardinal Priest by the the pope. This one quickly deads during trouble times, with a face to face between Soviet Union and China (which endures a famine). To avoid a near atomic war, Vatican elected Lakota as the new pope and he's struggles to change the fate of the world.
Douglas DC-8-33





Douglas DC-8-43
On the right.

Tail fin of DC-8 very likely from Alitalia fleet rather from French Government Armée de l'Air.

Vickers 785D Viscount
In the far bacground, a Viscount of Alitalia.

Piaggio-Douglas PD-808
Registration I-PIAI, c/n 503.
Fake Vatican livery, this aircraft owned by Piaggio Aero at the time, crashed on approach to San Sebastián-Fuenterrabia Airport (Spain) on 1968 June 18th.





Unidentified Aircraft
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