The Second Vatican Council as you’ve never seen it before: that’s what the Pontifical Council for Social Communications is offering through a new documentary film being released to mark the 50th anniversary of the Council on October 11th this year.
Put together by the Micromegas Communication company from over 200 hours of material from the Vatican film archive, the production includes plenty of unpublished footage and pictures, plus interviews with church leaders from around the world sharing personal memories and historical perspectives on the significance of the Council in different countries and cultural contexts.
From the announcement by John XXIII in January 1959, through the preparations and three years of work by the bishops and their assistants, this film reveals new details and hopes to add new insight to the understanding of this watershed event for our contemporary Christian world.
“We were trying to give the opportunity to many people, especially the young generations who know nothing about the Council, to show a lot of material. Consider that in the Filmoteca Vaticana we have around 200 hours of filming of Vatican II and we thought it was good to offer such an opportunity to people to know what happened.”