Gospa

Gospa
Directed byJakov Sedlar
Written byIvan Aralica
Paul Gronseth
Barry Morrow
Produced byIgor Prižmić
StarringMartin Sheen
Paul Guilfoyle
Frank Finlay
Morgan Fairchild
Michael York
Timothy Wheeler
Daniela Čolić-Prižmić
Anica Tomić
Paul Tivers
Release date
  • 13 October 1995 (1995-10-13)
Running time
125 minutes
CountriesCroatia
United States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$4.7 million

Gospa (Croatian for "Madonna" or "Our Lady") is a 1995 religious drama starring Martin Sheen and Morgan Fairchild about pilgrimages to a small Herzegovinian village of Međugorje where six school children say the Virgin Mary appeared in 1981.

The movie highlights alleged persecutions of Catholic Croats, particularly of the clergy, by the communist authorities of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Martin Sheen plays Franciscan priest Jozo Zovko, who was tried for sedition by the Yugoslav government.[1][2]

  1. ^ Sullivan, Randall (2004). The Miracle Detective. New York: Grove Press. pp. 116–118, 197, 390.
  2. ^ Holmström, Leif, ed. (2019). Cases of the UNESCO Committee on Conventions and Recommendations: Communications examined under the 104 EX/Decision 3.3 Procedure of the Executive Board (1978-1988). Vol. 2. Leiden; Boston: UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization). p. 537. ISBN 9789004390294.