KIDNAPPED: THE ABDUCTION OF EDGARDO MORTARA

2024
2 HR, 14 min
JUN 14 → JUN 20

Details

Released May 24, 2024, Italy

Drama, History

2 hours, 14 minutes

Cohen Media Group

Italian and Hebrew with English subtitles

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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Reviews

“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