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May 8, 2024 · Watch the official trailer for Marco Bellocchio's KIDNAPPED: THE ABDUCTION OF EDGARDO MORTARA In Theaters May 24-Official Selection, Cannes International Fil...
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5 days ago · Indie films at the box office this weekend led by 'Kidnapped: The Abduction Of Edgardo Mortara' and 'Solo'. 'Hit Man' starts two-week theatrical run.
May 9, 2024 · Leonard Pearce May 9, 2024. A story once in the hands of Steven Spielberg to adapt, 84-year-old Italian director Marco Bellocchio’s latest film Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara follows a seven-year-old Jewish boy who was taken from his family in Bologna to be raised Catholic in the actual arms of Pope Pius IX.
May 9, 2024 · Watch the trailer, an IndieWire exclusive, below. Here’s the official synopsis: “In 1858, in the Jewish quarter of Bologna, the Pope’s soldiers burst into the home of the Mortara family. By ...
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5 days ago · The story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, who in 1858, after being secretly baptized, was forcibly taken from his family to be raised as a Christian. His parents’ struggle to free their son became part of a larger political battle that pitted the papacy against forces of democracy and Italian unification ...
May 16, 2024 · 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.
5 days ago · 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 ...
