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Kidnapped (Italian: Rapito) is a 2023 Italian-language historical drama film co-written and directed by Marco Bellocchio, about Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy who was taken from his family by the Papal States and raised as a Catholic.
May 24, 2024 · Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara: Directed by Marco Bellocchio. With Paolo Pierobon, Fausto Russo Alesi, Barbara Ronchi, Enea Sala. A Jewish boy is kidnapped and converted to Catholicism in 1858.
May 24, 2024 · It proves intoxicating, at times nearly overwhelming, thanks to perfect casting, an economical and impassioned screenplay, and filmmaking overseen by 84-year-old cowriter-director Marco Bellocchio, who might be one of the greatest living narrative filmmakers who is not usually recognized as such.
Apr 26, 2024 · Kidnapped: The extraordinary story of the six-year-old abducted by the Catholic Church. Film director Marco Bellocchio on Edgardo Mortara, a ‘baptised’ Jewish boy taken from his family, and...
May 23, 2023 · Director Marco Bellocchio's new period drama, 'Kidnapped', revisits a real incident that happened in Italy in the 19th century.
Jun 1, 2024 · Directed by the esteemed Italian provocateur Marco Bellocchio, the drama takes its heated inspiration from a notorious real-life incident of antisemitism.
May 23, 2023 · Revered Italian auteur Marco Bellocchio is returning to Cannes with “ Kidnapped ,” a drama that reconstructs the true tale of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy who was kidnapped and forcibly...
May 23, 2023 · A Jewish boy forcibly converted to Christianity becomes a favorite of Pope Pius IX in Marco Bellocchio's solemn, handsomely mounted drama ‘Kidnapped.’
Marco Bellocchio's gripping new historical drama follows the real-life story of a young boy whose abduction from his parents by the Vatican fuelled outrage in 19th-century Italy, and triggered a global scandal.
Oct 30, 2023 · A year after his Exterior Night series about the 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro, Italian film-maker Marco Bellocchio is back with another tale of abduction that made the headlines in 19th-century Italy.
