Kidnapped

Italy/France/Germany, 134m, DCP

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Screened May 24–June 20, 2024

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: he must receive a Catholic education. Edgardo’s parents, distraught, will do anything to get their son back. Supported by public opinion and the international Jewish community, the Mortaras’ struggle quickly take a political dimension. But the Church and the Pope will not agree to return the child, to consolidate an increasingly wavering power…

A Cohen Media Group release

In Italian and Hebrew with English subtitles

Official Selection: Cannes International Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, AFI Fest, Mill Valley Film Festival

A film by Marco Bellocchio

[★★★★★] A gripping, heartbreaking true-crime story.”
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

An engaging… fascinating film, telling a true story that probes historic Italian antisemitism and the follies of the Catholic church.”

Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter