Cinema Italiano: Kidnapped
02 hours 15 minutes
- Barbara Ronchi, Fausto Russo Alesi, Paolo Pierobon
- Marco Bellocchio
- Cinema Italiano Festival, Coming Soon, Drama, History
- July 27, 2024
- Subtitled
Synopsis
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This gripping historical drama recounts the true story of a Jewish boy who was abducted by the Vatican.
1858, the Jewish quarter of Bologna. The Pope’s soldiers burst into the home of the Mortara family to take six-year-old Edgardo to Rome. Unbeknownst to his parents Momolo (Fausto Russo Alesi) and Marianna (Barbara Ronchi), Edgardo had been secretly baptised by his nurse as a baby, and the papal law is unquestionable: he must receive a Catholic education, thus his parents must either convert or lose him forever.
The Motara’s struggles to have their son returned soon takes a political dimension, driven by the support of public opinion and the international Jewish community – but the Church and Pope Pius IX (Paolo Pierobon) himself stand resolute in the face of criticism, aiming to consolidate their increasingly wavering power.