Completely unknown to him, 6-year-old Edgardo Mortara had a secret. The boy was born in 1851 to Jewish merchants in Bologna and fell ill shortly after birth.

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 ...

In 1858, Edgardo Mortara, the sixth child of Salamone (Momolo) and Marianna, was removed by papal police from his home in Bologna, a city in the Papal States. The Mortaras, ...

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. Search Query Show Search.

In 1858, a young Jewish boy living at Bologna, Italy, was taken from his family by decree of the Catholic Church. The child, Edgardo Mortara, was allegedly baptized as a baby by a household maid and ...

Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara 2024, NR, 135 min. Directed by Marco Bellocchio. Starring Fausto Russo Alesi, Barbara Ronchi, Paolo Pierobon, Filip Timi, Fabrizio Gifuni, Enea Sala ...

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 ...

THE MOVIE. In April 2016, word broke out that producer Steven Spielberg’s next movie would chronicle this story of a Jewish boy named Edgardo Mortara in Italy who was kidnapped and raised in the ...

In the film “Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara,” a representative of Pope Pius IX arrives at a Jewish family’s home in Bologna, Italy, on a June night in 1858.

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 ...