A narrator is walking along the rocky shore in Dwejra, Gozo recalling thoughts expressed by Pope John Paul II as the TV cameraman takes in the magnificence of the Azure Window.
The scene forms part of a 90-minute documentary called The Great Pope: Pilgrim In White dealing with the philosophy advocated by the late Pope from Warsaw, Poland. The pontiff had urged nations to treasure their cultural roots irrespective of the onslaught of the media and other forces. The documentary will be in English and Polish.
"This is not a biography but a closer look at how John Paul II changed the mentality on how people relate with each other," Krystyna Mikulanka, co-producer of the documentary said while the crew was filming here.
Ms Mikulanka, who is also honorary consul for Malta, added that when she spoke about the filming to Gaetan Naudi, who is Maltese Ambassador to Poland, his reply was "why don't you go to Malta as well?"
"It is not practical to go to every place the Pope had visited but with my passion for Malta, it was not hard at all to convince me to come here", Ms Mikulanka said.
The Polish crew of seven - which includes Tadeusz Lampka and Stanislaw Szymanski, producers, as well as Michal Walczak, production manager - have still to film in Mexico and Bolivia, Senegal and Zimbabwe, the Holy Land, Jordan and Egypt.
The people interviewed for the documentary will include the Dalai Lama, Lech Walesa, Placido Domingo, Joaquin Navarro-Valls, Guido de Marco, Francesco Cossiga, Simon Peres, Roberto Benigni and Stephen Speilberg among others. The last two personalities were included because their films, Life Is Beautiful and Shindler's List are considered by the Vatican as promoting high moral values, Ms Mikulanka noted.
Jaroslaw Szmidt, director and director of photography said "John Paul II visited Malta twice, the second time in 2001 which was the peak of his travelling connected with the beginning of Christianity.
"The connection of the island with St Paul is tangible and in the documentary we feature that great painting by Caravaggio called The Conversion Of St Paul which is housed at the church of Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome," he said.
A cinema version of the documentary is scheduled to be premiered in Malta next year on April 2, the anniversary of the death of John Paul II.