....The Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano said the film, which its director Liana Marabini wants to show at the Cannes festival this year, was "naive", "lacking credibility" and a "frankly clumsy attempt" at defending the wartime pontiff....Pagine Ebraiche, the online paper of Rome's Jewish community, called it "a blundering soap opera of dubious quality, filled with stereotypes". It also faulted the film for a scene in which the journalist dreams he sees Pius wearing a yellow Star of David on his white cassock, like the patch the Nazis forced Jews to wear.
Jewish interest ping!
Pope Pius XII was actually a good friend of the Jews, and he helped save many of them from the Nazis.
Perhaps this film is, as the article suggests, naïve and badly made, and doesn’t make a proper case of defending him against the leftist, anti-Catholic slimes who lied about him. Or perhaps it’s just one more lie.
Or a bit of both.
Don’t know about the film, but it is true that Pius XII gets a bad rap. His reputation suffers mostly because of retaliation for traditional RC Jew-hate, not because Pius XII’s conduct was reprehensible.
Many leaders, including Jewish ones, faced similar dilemmas when their public words could be used to justify the murder of thousands held hostage by Nazi occupation.
During and immediately after the war, Pius was well regarded by the Jews, and hated by Hitler. Only after his death did the Soviets make a great effort to discredit and edit revise the history of this pope.
This effort was galavanized by The Deputy a 1963 play by Rolf Hochhuth. However, Rolf was a communist and much of the play was likely written by the Soviets.
Read Disinformation by Pacepa if you want the real story.
Documents recovered more recently from Nazi Germany and the Russian KGB files have put the lie to the The Myth of Hitler’s Pope: (An Interview with Rabbi David G. Dalin).
some new info has been released,
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/the-popes-jews/615736/?utm_source=pocket-newtab