Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentItalian auteur Marco Bellocchio (“The Traitor”) is set to reconstruct the true-life drama of Edgardo Mortara, a Jewish boy kidnapped and converted to Catholicism in 1858.
It’s a story that Steven Spielberg was in advanced stages to bring to the screen a few years ago.Mortara was a young Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, who in 1858, after being secretly baptized, 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.
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