Title: Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara
Rating: NR
Directed by: Marco Bellocchio
Written by: Marco Bellocchio, Susanna Nicchiarelli, Edoardo Albinati, and Daniela Ceselli
Starring: Paolo Pierobon, Fausto Russo Alesi, Barbara Ronchi, Enea Sala, Leonardo Maltese, Filippo Timi, and Fabrizio Gifuni
Release Date: 5/24/2024
Running Time: 134 minutes
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In 1858, in the Jewish quarter of Bologna, the Pope’s soldiers burst into the home of the Mortara family. By order of the cardinal, they have come to take Edgardo, their seven-year-old son. The child had been secretly baptized by his nurse as a baby and the papal law is unquestionable: he must receive a Catholic education. Edgardo’s parents, distraught, will do anything to get their son back. Supported by public opinion and the international Jewish community, the Mortaras’ struggle quickly take a political dimension. But the Church and the Pope will not agree to return the child, to consolidate an increasingly wavering power…
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