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May 24, 2024 · Powered by JustWatch. Set in 1800s Italy and based on a true story, “Kidnapped” is so primally upsetting that you would think it would be unbearable to watch. But it proves intoxicating, at times nearly overwhelming, thanks to perfect casting, an economical and impassioned screenplay, and filmmaking overseen by 84-year-old cowriter-director ...
Based on incredible true events, the gripping new historical drama from master auteur Marco Bellocchio (The Traitor, Good Morning Night, Vincere) follows the story of a young boy whose abduction from his parents by the Vatican fuelled outrage in 19th-century Italy, and triggered a global scandal. 1858, the Jewish quarter of Bologna.
His most passionate films centre on lives taken, warped or ruined in the service of a cause, and Kidnapped is no exception. A sinewy period piece, it uses the true story of a young Jewish boy who was almost literally ‘kidnapped’ by the Vatican in the mid 19th century as a study in what happens when fragile human values come up against an autocratic system underpinned by immovable dogma.
May 23, 2023 · ‘Kidnapped’ Review: Marco Bellocchio’s Luxuriant Account of Religious Child Abduction Is Dignified but Dusty Reviewed at Cannes Film Festival (Competition), May 23, 2023. Running time: 134 MIN.
Jan 28, 2023 · Hoax: The Kidnapping of Sherri Papini: Directed by Marta Borowski. With Jaime King, Matt Hamilton, Josh Collins, Lossen Chambers. In 2016 Sherri Papini went for a run and didn't come home.
Synopsis. 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 ...
Critics reviews. In 1858, in the Jewish quarter of Bologna, the Pope’s soldiers burst into the home of the Mortara family. By order of the cardinal, they have come to take Edgardo, their seven-year-old son. The child had been secretly baptized by his nurse as a baby and the papal law is unquestionable.
