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Kidnapped (Italian: Rapito), released in the US as Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara, [4] 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.
Edgardo refuted that: "I have always ardently desired that my mother embrace the Catholic faith," he wrote in a letter to Le Temps, "and I tried many times to get her to do so. However, that never happened". [107] A year later, Father Pio Edgardo Mortara returned to Italy, for the first time in two decades, to preach in Modena.
One of nine children born to Jewish merchant Momolo Mortara (Fausto Russo Alesi) and his wife Marianna (a heartbreaking Barbara Ronchi), Edgardo is only 6 when he is seized at home by Bologna ...
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 ...
Anna (Aurora Camatti), the Catholic servant to the Jewish Mortara family of Bologna, … ‘Kidnapped’ Review: Marco Bellocchio’s Luxuriant Account of Religious Child Abduction Is Dignified ...
The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, an upcoming film adaptation of the Kertzer book Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara .
Italian auteur Marco Bellocchio (“The Traitor”) is set to reconstruct the true-life drama of Edgardo Mortara, a Jewish boy kidnapped and converted to Catholicism in 1858. It’s a story that ...
Elena Mortara, a great-great-granddaughter of one of Edgardo's sisters, and a professor of literature in Rome, continues to campaign for an apology from the Vatican for Edgardo's abduction and against the canonization of Pius IX. She has said she is "appalled at the idea that the Catholic Church wants to make a saint out of a Pope who ...