Cohen Media Group has scooped rights to “Kidnapped,” the latest movie by revered Italian master Marco Bellocchio, which world premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival.
The drama reconstructs the true tale of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy who was kidnapped and forcibly raised as a Christian in 19th-century Italy.Described by Variety as a “handsomely mounted period drama,” “Kidnapped” opens in 1858, in the Jewish quarter of Bologna, where 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.
The Mortaras are supported by public opinion and the international Jewish community, but the Church and the…
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