"The Black Death" movie

It was only a matter of time before somebody made a movie about the plague epidemic of 1348. I did some research on the 1348 outbreak as well as later outbreaks up until the 17th century (populations continued to be infected by plague even into the 20th century, but my research didn't extend that far). It is such a grim, but fascinating time period in which people were dying more quickly than they could be buried. Not only were the resiliency of social infrastructures (ie. church and local government) tried, the resiliency and faith of the people were put to the test. This latter part was the meat and potatoes of my research. How did people cope under such stress, when a third, or half (whatever the case may be-some authorities on the subject have made estimates of up to 60% of the European population were killed in the plague of 1348) of their town was ravaged by the disease. How do you wrap your head around the fact that you or people you know will probably be dead by this time tomorrow from an incurable disease especially if you don't fully understand why this catastrophe is happening. Yet people did live through it and survive without renouncing their faith or flagellating themselves (a minority of the populace did, but most didn't) or doing any number of similarly crazy, reprehensible things like killing Jews. Like I said, FASCINATING. Hopefully, the movie will hold our interest enough to do justice to the subject matter.

Here is an interview with the screenwriter, Dario Poloni.