Kidnapped

IMDb link: 14137416
IMDb rating: 7 (4,592 votes)
Genres: Drama, History
Director: Marco Bellocchio
Cast: Fausto Russo Alesi, Paolo Pierobon, Barbara Ronchi, Leonardo Maltese, Enea Sala and others

Release date: 24 May 2024
Release year: 2023
Runtime: 134 minutes
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Keywords: kidnapping, year 1858, jew, jewish, forced conversion, jewish family, child kidnapping, kidnapped boy, based on real people, 1850s

Plot:

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.

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