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Based on a true story
- Based on a true story, Bellocchio’s script manages to make a thorny and complicated history feel accessible, tracing decades of conflict into an accessible two-plus hours.
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Apr 26, 2024 · Kidnapped, which is based on a true story, and premiered in competition at Cannes last year, is a thrilling entry in the CV of a film-maker who received the French festival’s career-marking Palme...
Jun 12, 2024 · Abuse of power comes as no surprise in Marco Bellocchio’s historical drama Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara. Based on a true story that spanned two decades, the new film boldly ...
May 24, 2024 · Set in 1800s Italy and based on a true story, “Kidnapped” is so primally upsetting that you would think it would be unbearable to watch.
Oct 3, 2023 · This movie tells the true story of a 6-year-old Jewish boy — baptized, kidnapped and raised by the Pope. Marco Bellocchio’s ‘Kidnapped’ is a sumptuous, scary retelling of the Mortara ...
May 23, 2023 · Revered Italian auteur Marco Bellocchio is returning to Cannes with “ Kidnapped,” a drama that reconstructs the true tale of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy who was kidnapped and forcibly...
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Synopsis. 1851. Edgardo Mortara is the sixth child of a Jewish family from the city of Bologna, part of the Papal States. Believing him sick and dying, the Christian maid Anna Morisi administers baptism in secret, for fear that when he dies he will end up in limbo.
May 30, 2024 · Now 84 but still far from mellow, Bellocchio takes us back to the 19th century to tell a historical horror story steeped in Roman Catholic antisemitism. The action begins in 1850s Bologna,...