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A Jewish boy is kidnapped and converted to Catholicism in 1858.A Jewish boy is kidnapped and converted to Catholicism in 1858.A Jewish boy is kidnapped and converted to Catholicism in 1858.
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- 19 wins & 16 nominations
Daniele Aldrovandi
- Bonaiuto Sanguinetti
- (as Pietro Daniele Aldrovandi)
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- TriviaSteven Spielberg was intending to direct a version of this story around 2016. He even was looking at casting the young boy's role though open auditions from Jewish Schools in Europe and America. Although he had cast Mark Rylance as Pope Pius IX and Oscar Isaac as the older Edgardo Mortara, Spielberg's inability to find the right child actor led to the project becoming stalled.
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Based on a bizarre true story, this follows the tale of the young Edgardo Sala who was living quite happily with his Jewish parents and siblings in Bologna until an official arrives one evening to tell them he is to be removed from their care. Why? It appears that many years earlier when he was in his cradle, he has been baptised and so must therefore be looked after by the church. Despite their appeals and protestations, he is swiftly taken to Rome where he is enrolled in a Catholic school where his is pretty thoroughly indoctrinated into the ways of his new Church - even becoming of special interest to Pope Pius IX (Paolo Pierobon). The story really centres around the trial many year later of the Papal Officer Feletti (Fabrizio Gifuni) after the city had become part of the Italian Kingdom, and those proceedings are used to fill in some of the backstory and to test the theories of responsibility of actions done in the name of the State. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the young man grows up to become conflicted - his love of Jesus struggles with his love of family and of the Talmud that was so important to him as a child. What I didn't really understand was just why the Pope would ever been at all interested in the fate of a small Jewish lad when the Papal States were in permanent decline, but Marco Bellochio uses a solid cast and a sparing, but frequently impassioned, amount of dialogue to deliver a stylishly made intrigue that show the last vestiges of the once all-powerful Papacy and of the inconsequential hopes of a family and a small boy.
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- Apr 26, 2024
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- Also known as
- Kidnapped
- Filming locations
- Piazza Maggiore, Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy(views of the cathedral facade)
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- Budget
- €13,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $36,459
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $12,925
- May 26, 2024
- Gross worldwide
- $4,135,644
- Runtime2 hours 14 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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