The controversial and stunning story of a Jewish boy who was kidnapped by the Catholic Church in 1858.
Famous Italian director Marco Bellocchio (Il Traditore, Vincere) tells the story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy. In 1858, after being secretly baptized, he 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.