The Pope Must Die

The plot is predicated on the Holy See being controlled by the Sicilian Mafia boss Vittorio Corelli (Herbert Lom). The movie opens with the death of the previous Pope followed by a deadlocked conclave that lasts for 25 days. The conclave is ended by the Mafia's tame Cardinal (Catholicism) Rocco (Alex Rocco), who successfully persuades the College of Cardinals to elect ''in absentia'' the Mafia's favoured candidate to the papacy, Albini (Janez Vajevec), a priest in the service of the Mafia, whom Rocco passes off as an absent "Cardinal Albini".