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KIDNAPPED: THE ABDUCTION OF EDGARDO MORTARA

  • 2024
  • 2 HR, 14 min
  • JUN 14 → JUN 20
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Released May 24, 2024
Italy
2 hours, 14 minutes
Cohen Media Group
Starring
  • Paolo Pierobon
  • Fausto Russo Alesi
  • Barbara Ronchi
  • Enea Sala
  • Leonardo Maltese
  • Filippo Timi
Director

Marco Bellocchio

Film Information

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.

Film Stills

Full Cast
Paolo Pierobon
Fausto Russo Alesi
Barbara Ronchi
Enea Sala
Leonardo Maltese
Filippo Timi
Additional Credits
Marco Bellocchio Director
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“The director, Marco Bellocchio, anchors the period with a somber visual elegance and employs surreal gestures to tease out the psychological and spiritual aspects of the tragedy.”

Lisa Kennedy
New York Times

“It is a full-tilt melodrama with the passionate vehemence of Victor Hugo or Charles Dickens, which lays bare an ugly formative episode of Europe’s Catholic church: an affair of antisemitism and child abuse.”

Peter Bradshaw
Guardian

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