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Kidnapped Rapito

Marco Bellocchio / Italy, Germany, France / 2023 / 125 min / Italian

A chronicle of an inglorious chapter in the history of the Catholic Church. A powerful story about a Jewish boy abducted from his family by papal gendarmes to be educated as a Christian.

cast Enea Sala (mlajši/younger Edgardo Mortara), Leonardo Maltese (starejši/older Edgardo Mortara), Fausto Russo Alesi (Salomone Mortara), Barbara Ronchi (Marianna Padovani Mortara), Fabrizio Gifuni (Pier Gaetano Feletti), Paolo Pierobon (papež Pij IX./Pope Pious IX), Filippo Timi (Giacomo Antonelli), Bruno Cariello (Maresciallo Lucidi)

festivals, awards Cannes 2023, Munich 2023

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 takes a political dimension. However, to consolidate an increasingly wavering power, the Church and the Pope will not agree to return the child.

"The kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara is a crime against a quiet, moderately well-to-do family, respectful of authority at a time when a wind of freedom was blowing over Europe, when liberal principles were beginning to assert themselves everywhere. The kidnapping of little Edgardo therefore symbolizes the desperate, ultra-violent will of a declining power that tries to resist its own collapse. Totalitarian regimes often have such upheavals which give them, for a short time only, the illusion of victory, a brief spasm before death." (Marco Bellocchio)

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