Jackson and Steven Spielberg has Tom Hanks. Spielberg and Hanks have made several projects together. Interestingly, their working relationship would have begun a little earlier. The filmmaker was ...

With ‘Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara,’ Italian director Marco Bellocchio delivers a period piece exposing Pius IX’s cruel reign.

A child cries, and a nation falls. In historical drama Kidnapped, the child is Edgardo Mortara, six years old and the sixth son of Salomone and Marianna Mortara in the city of Bologna. The nation ...

“Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara” masterfully tells that true story, which became an international scandal that figured into the decline of Pius IX and the Papal States during the ...

Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara is a deeply-felt film that revisits an unsavory and unsettling episode in the annals of the Vatican’s mercurial relationship with Jews.

Abuse of power comes as no surprise in Marco Bellocchio’s historical drama Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara. Based on a true story that spanned two decades, the new film boldly ...

Directed by the esteemed Italian provocateur Marco Bellocchio, the drama takes its heated inspiration from a notorious real-life incident of antisemitism.

Directed by the esteemed Italian provocateur Marco Bellocchio, the drama takes its heated inspiration from a notorious real-life incident of antisemitism.

Marco Bellocchio’s 'Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara' is a psychological epic of extraordinary richness. Its cultural comedy and spiritual tragedy are an uncanny Millennial mix.

Edgardo Mortara was just 6 years old when Italian authorities took him away from his family in 1858. Kidnapped is a true story steeped in Roman Catholic antisemitism.