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Kidnapped: The Abduction Of Edgardo Mortara tells the harrowing true story of a young Jewish boy forcibly taken by the Papal state and raised as a Christian in 19th-Century Italy. The film, acclaimed for its visual richness, has garnered accolades and is set for a U.S. release on May 24. ....
Marco Bellocchio Set For Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara Drama That Spielberg Had His Eye On (EXCLUSIVE) Nick Vivarelli, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail 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 Steven Spielberg was in advanced stages to bring to the screen a few years ago. Mortara was 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. Mortara went on to become a priest in the Augustinian order. ....