Kidnapped
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2hrs
14mins
Directed by
Patrick Carrarin,
Alessio Lazzareschi,
Maurizio Feverati,
Marco Bellocchio
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Starring
Enea Sala,
Leonardo Maltese,
Paolo Pierobon,
Fausto Russo Alesi
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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.