A Greek village ruled by Turks chooses a shepherd as Christ in the annual Passion Play. When the priest refuses to help refugees the shepherd resists him.
He Who Must Die (1957)
JESUS OF MONTREAL (1989)
When Daniel,an actor in Montreal, is hired by a priest to revise a tired old Passion Play, he uses modern scholarship to come up with a version that upsets and exposes the hypocrisy of the priest.