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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.
Mortara had, as Kertzer put it, "[fallen] from the mainstream of Italian history into the ghetto of Jewish history". [108] Kertzer explored many sources not previously studied and eventually published The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara (1997), which has become the standard reference work for the affair. [109] [verification needed]
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 ...
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 ...
The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara may refer to The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara , a 1997 nonfiction book by David Kertzer The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara (film) , an upcoming film adaptation of the Kertzer book
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 ...
In a highly publicized case from 1858, the police of the Papal States seized a 6-year-old Jewish boy, Edgardo Mortara, from his parents. A Christian servant girl unrelated to the family claimed she had informally baptized him during an illness six years prior, fearing he would die. This had made the child legally a Christian convert, and Papal ...