Thursday, September 26th 2024

KIDNAPPED THE ABDUCTION OF EDGARDO MORTARA

Dir. MARCO BELLOCCHIO, ITALY/FRANCE/GERMANY, 2023,134 min. 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.